Publications by authors named "Batuafe Bakaa"
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- - Adoption, while rare, is seen in many mammal species and can benefit both the adoptee's survival and the adoptive mother’s evolutionary fitness, especially in social animals like bonobos.
- - Researchers documented two instances of wild bonobos adopting infants from different social groups, marking the first known cases of cross-group adoption among great apes.
- - The adoptive mothers provided nurturing behaviors such as carrying and nursing without showing aggression toward the adoptee, indicating that traits like strong attraction to infants and tolerance towards unrelated young may drive these adoption behaviors in bonobos.
Findings of regional variations in the behavioral patterns of non-human primates have led to the vigorous study of animal traditions (or culture), which contribute to a biological understanding of diversity in human cultures. Although our knowledge of behavioral variations of the bonobo (Pan paniscus) is limited compared with its sister species, the chimpanzee (P. troglodytes), variations in the prey of this species have been reported across study sites.
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