{"id":4993,"date":"2016-11-04T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:46:30","slug":"gorilla-moms-may-be-responsible-for-differences-in-social-organization-between-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/gorilla-moms-may-be-responsible-for-differences-in-social-organization-between-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla moms may be responsible for differences in social organization between species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5056\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5056\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8116894853_07bc161ba6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Parenting styles of mountain gorillas may help determine social structures within the species. (Photo by Carine06 via Flickr CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8116894853_07bc161ba6_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8116894853_07bc161ba6_z-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parenting styles of mountain gorillas may help determine social structures within the species. <i>(Photo by Carine06 <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dngd3Z\">via Flickr CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social organization of gorillas has been helpful to \u00a0explain the evolution of human behavior, but these structures vary among gorilla species. A recent study<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outlines different parenting styles among mothers in various gorilla species. For example, female mountain gorillas remain with their sons significantly longer than western gorillas. The presence of the mother might reduce the son&#8217;s incentive to emigrate, thereby providing a cause for the greater number of multi-male groups among mountain gorillas than their western counterparts. Researchers theorize that maternal support could have similarly contributed to the development of these so-called \u00a0\u201cpatrilocal\u201d societies for chimpanzees, bonobos, as well as early humans.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew M. Robbins, Maryke Gray, Thomas Breuer, Marie Manguette, Emma J. Stokes, Prosper Uwingeli, Innocent Mburanumwe, Edwin Kagoda, Martha M. Robbins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Robbins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/3\/10\/160533\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em> on October 19, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social organization of gorillas has been helpful to \u00a0explain the evolution of human behavior, but these structures vary among gorilla species. A recent study\u00a0outlines different parenting styles among mothers in various gorilla species. For example, female mountain gorillas remain with their sons significantly longer than western gorillas. 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