Chimpanzee mother with her offspring (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Chimpanzee mother with her offspring

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Like human children wild chimpanzees develop critical secure and insecure-avoidant attachment patterns to their mothers. However, unlike humans and some captive chimpanzees, they do not exhibit disorganised attachment.

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© Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project

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To be used for reporting on this study by Eléonore Rolland et al. (2025) only.

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