Robin, a Bunobo child, knew near his mother in the rainstorm in the Congo when he extracted the adult Bonopo called Olive, some foods from the hands of Robin’s little. Then the olives hit the child, strongly, on the face and neck – in front of his mother.
Capitalist Rashna Reddy from the University of Utah, who was watching the group from about 30 feet, is expected to put my mother the law. “I was like,” moments! Someone is about to be beaten.
In a recent study, Reddy and her colleagues have documented some of the amazing differences in the philosophy of paternity and motherhood of the nearest children of my human cousins: Bonopos and the Chambanzee. While Bonopo’s mothers rarely enter when someone was “means” for their children, chimpanzees are more like “helicopters”, including almost half of the time. Reddy says that this was inconsistent with the expectations of the scholars of the parties of these two types and shows that “what it means is that one of the supportive parents is different in the animal kingdom.” The study was published in February in Animal behavior.
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Bonobos and Chimpanzees have a largely different reputation. Bonobos is often seen as “the most beautiful cousin”, while chimpanzees get bad rap music, as explains Elizabeth Longdorf, a preliminary disease specialist at Emory University, who has not participated in the new paper. In the chimpanze community, the dominant males use the deadly force to defend grass, sexual coercion and sexual coercion against females is common. Bonobo is the mother, and females have a permanent effect on their offspring. This is particularly the case for children, who inherit their ranks from their mother and may need to help her as a “wing woman” successfully.
Frankly, Reddy says, she expects the dominant females to be “Supermoms”. But after watching Olive Smack Rubin with impunity, Reddy began to find out if they have fallen different at the level of species in patterns of paternity and motherhood.
During multiple field seasons, Reddy and her team chimpanzee followed in Kepal National Park in Uganda and Bonopos in the Coccolbury Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The researchers documented what happened every time when another member of this type was “meaning” for the young man in the presence of their mother – for example, bites them, pushing them from a tree or stealing a piece of food. Surprisingly, Bonobo Moms followed a more approach. They were involved in only 8 percent of the conflicts, as their child was the “victim”. The chimpanzees mothers intervened nearly half of the time.
Looking at the reputation of the species, it is tempting to assume that the chimpanzees mothers interfere because their descendants are in real danger – and the bonopo mothers tend back because they know that their children will not face serious harm in their gentle society. But according to Reddy’s data, young Bonobo and Shampanzees face a screaming with similar risks of real harm. In fact, Reddy saw some young Bonobos hurt or missed food while their mother was watching.
So why do females decline? Initially, Reddy and her team believed that it may be to maintain important ties politically with other pre -dominant females. But it is unlikely that Bonopo’s mothers intervene even when the aggressor was an orphan-one of the members of the Punobo Social Group.
Reddy was also surprised to find a difference in how passers -by interacted when young people faced a problem. Shampanzi, who was not the victim’s mother, interfered in 21 percent of the conflicts. Punobo went up by 7 percent of the time. The researchers say this may suggest a deeper psychological difference between Bonopos and Shampanzees, which goes beyond paternity and motherhood.
Although more research is needed to determine whether these patterns are possible in other groups of these princesses, one of the possible explanations is that the constant threat of violence in the life of chimpanzees can emerge to defend other members of their social group, regardless of the situation. Reddy explains that the bonds within the group are a “truly essential part” of the chimpanzee community. Chimpanzee “can bear great risks to protect each other in meetings [with a hostile group]- Like jumping to cover a person who is attacked “with his body, Reddy says.
Lonsdorf says the new study is an impressive work with exciting results. “It contradicts the response of the initial intestine as guardians of the popular perceptions of these men,” she says. In this case, the famous chimpanzee interactive in fact “means that it interferes more.”
More importantly, the chimpanzees mothers do not always launch an anti -attack when defending their offspring, says Redi; The situation may raise aggression, but it “may also mean going and adopting the aggressor.”
“The society that has these upper levels of aggression may be more protected, and it may be more friendly [and] The study is a co -author Martin Surbik of Harvard University, who studies the social behavior of monkeys, may be more sympathetic to certain levels.
At the same time, experts agree that it is important that my mother’s shame “Bonopos” is not to impose our human ideas about the supporter of a supportive father. “This is not [bonobos] Surbeck says: “The intervention of the conflict” may not be aspects of their mosquitoes, as is the case in chimpanzees. “