{"id":117908,"date":"2025-05-20T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117908\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:02:10","slug":"mother-infant-bonds-in-wild-chimpanzees-resemble-those-of-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117908\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2013infant bonds in wild chimpanzees resemble those of humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bonds of affection between human mothers and their children are crucial for infant well-being. This suggests that such bonds might have a long evolutionary history. Writing in Nature Human Behaviour, Rolland et al. report evidence of human-like mother\u2013infant bonding in wild Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus, pictured). The observations improve researchers\u2019 understanding of these \u2018attachment\u2019 behaviours in our closest living primate relatives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02176-8\" data-track=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02176-8\" data-track-category=\"body text link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E. Rolland et al. Nature Hum. Behav. https:\/\/doi.org\/pmqj; 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>                    Competing Interests<\/p>\n<p>The author declares no competing interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bonds of affection between human mothers and their children are crucial for infant well-being. This suggests that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[45242,3926,3965,3966,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-117908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-behaviour","9":"tag-evolution","10":"tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","11":"tag-multidisciplinary","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114541949418754780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}