Two wild female bonobos adopted infants from a different social group at Wamba

Abstract Adoption, the act of taking another individual’s offspring and treating it as one’s own, is rare but widely observed in various mammal species and may increase the survival of adoptees. Adoption may also benefit adoptive mothers, for example they might care for close kin to gain indirect fi...

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Main Authors: Nahoko Tokuyama, Kazuya Toda, Marie-Laure Poiret, Bahanande Iyokango, Batuafe Bakaa, Shintaro Ishizuka
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/33a59dbf81d841dd8ab3afb4d78fa701
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