{"id":3560,"date":"2014-11-24T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2014-11-24T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:05:54","slug":"chimps-show-gender-bias-in-socialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/chimps-show-gender-bias-in-socialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimps show gender bias in socialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3561\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-09507-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3561\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-09507-large.jpg\" alt=\"An adult female chimpanzee (top, right) and 2-year-old son (top, left) feed alongside a former alpha male (bottom). A new study suggests that mother chimps give their sons more social exposure outside of the family than they give their daughters. (Photo credit: Ian Gilby, Arizona State University)\" width=\"400\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-09507-large.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-09507-large-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adult female chimpanzee (top, right) and 2-year-old son (top, left) feed alongside a former alpha male (bottom). A new study suggests that mother chimps give their sons more social exposure outside of the family than they give their daughters. (Photo credit: Ian Gilby, Arizona State University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Among wild chimpanzees, mothers of sons spend more time interacting with other chimpanzees than mothers of daughters, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>In early infancy (0-6 months) when an infant is in almost constant contact with its mother, mothers of sons spent more time socializing with non-immediate family members than those with daughters. Additionally, mothers of sons spent more time socializing with both genders than those with daughters.<\/p>\n<p>The differences in socialization mean that male infant chimpanzees receive approximately two hours more each day in social exposure time with non-immediate family members, a nearly 25 per cent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest that mother chimpanzees vary their behaviour in a way that foreshadows gender differences in adult chimpanzees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1409507111\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>November 24, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu\/carson-murray\" target=\"_blank\">Carson M. Murray<\/a><\/span>, George Washington University,\u00a0U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among wild chimpanzees, mothers of sons spend more time interacting with other chimpanzees than mothers of daughters, according to a new study. In early infancy (0-6 months) when an infant is in almost constant contact with its mother, mothers of sons spent more time socializing with non-immediate family members than those with daughters. Additionally, mothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-09507-large.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}