[News] How Chimps Deal With Death: Studies Offer Rare Glimpses

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How Chimps Deal With Death: Studies Offer Rare Glimpses

 

ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2010) — Two studies in the April 27th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offer rare glimpses into the ways that chimpanzees deal with the deaths of those closest to them. In one case, researchers describe the final hours and moment of death of an older female chimp living in a small group at a UK safari park as captured on video. In the other, researchers observed as two chimpanzee mothers in the wild carried their infants' mummified remains for a period of weeks after they were lost to a respiratory epidemic.

 

How chimps deal with death: Studies offer rare glimpses