jane goodall,(anthro review)

The mother-infant relationship in a chimpanzee society is very important. The mother is very attached to her young and will show it. A common day for Goodall is spent following a mother and her family until evening. The mother will play with her babies, they'll play up in the branches and come to her arms when it gets dark. "Throughout Gimble's infancy Gremlin was an integral part of the family. At Gombe there is no closer relationship in chimpanzee society than that between a mother and her grown daughter." (p. 166) In the chimpanzee society, just as in human society, there are good mothers and bad mothers. There are very few really bad mothers because obviously any genes for bad maternal behavior will quickly get wiped away. You've got to be reasonably good for a baby to survive. "One of the most important milestones in the life of a young male is when he begins to travel away from his mother with other members of the community. The severing of apron strings is far more necessary for a young male than for a young female. She can learn most of what she needs to know for a successful adult life whilst remaining safely in her family setting. Not only can she watch her mother and her mother's friends caring for their infants, but she can actually handle them herself, gaining much of the experience which she will need later when she had a baby of her own. And she can learn, during her mother's 'pink days', a good deal about sex and the demands that will subsequently be made of her in that sphere." (p. 118) There are differences in the affection of a mother for her child and the tolerance that she has for the child. There are some mothers who are much brisker, much harsher, much less protective, much less tolerant, and much less supportive. And the infants who have mothers at this end of the spectrum tend to become adults who find it very difficult to form relaxed relationships with others in the community. They tend to be jumpy. They tend to be nervous. Whereas those infants who have the benefit of more nurturing, warm, more supportive mothers tend to grow up and be assertive, to reach a higher place in the hierarchy, and, if they are females, they tend to be better mothers themselves. I think it's very clear from scientific data collected on human families that this same kind of thing holds true for humans too.

Chimpanzees live in social groups called communities or unit groups. At Gombe, the number of individuals in the main study community (Kasakela) has ranged

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