After a long period of brainstorming, analyzing, writing, and revising, our research on the response of a group chimpanzees to a bereaved mother after the loss of her infant has been published in the special issue on Thanatology of the journal Primates. You can read it here. This topic is very close to my heart, and I had never expected that witnessing this tragic event could lead to the hopeful finding that chimpanzees may console bereaved individuals. Pictured is Moni, the leading lady of the article.
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