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An observation of a severely disabled infant chimpanzee in the wild and her interactions with her mother

Overview of attention for article published in Primates, November 2015
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Title
An observation of a severely disabled infant chimpanzee in the wild and her interactions with her mother
Published in
Primates, November 2015
DOI 10.1007/s10329-015-0499-6
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Takuya Matsumoto, Noriko Itoh, Sana Inoue, Michio Nakamura

Abstract

We report the physical and behavioral development of one severely disabled female infant chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the well-habituated M group in the Mahale Mountains National Park. We documented interactions between the infant and its mother and with other group members. Congenital disabilities occur in many primate species, including chimpanzees. However, there have been only a few case studies of congenitally disabled chimpanzee infants and no reports examining how a chimpanzee mother copes with such a disabled infant in the wild. The observed infant exhibited symptoms resembling Down syndrome, similar to those reported previously for a captive chimpanzee. The mother did not allow nonrelatives to take care of the infant even though she had been previously relatively tolerant of allomothering by nonrelatives. The mother's compensatory care for her infant's disabilities and allomothering of the infant by its sister might have helped it to survive for 23 months in the wild. Other group members did not show any aversive or fearful reactions to the disabled infant.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 3%
Spain 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 66 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 21%
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 33%
Psychology 13 19%
Social Sciences 8 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 14 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 430. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2023.
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#66,877
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#9
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#793
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Outputs of similar age from Primates
#1
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