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Do Monkeys Experience Sibling Rivalry?

5/13/2013

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PictureBaby primate communication without speech.
      More specifically, does Lolita feel anything akin to sibling rivalry?  Not according to her behavior with the week-old howler we had briefly in January, or the baby howler we have now.  Lolita is extremely loving with the babies, hugging and appearing to kiss them.  She was equally gentle with our eighteen month old grandson when he visited, and readily accepted him as a new addition to the family.  (An only child at the time, Connor handed Lolita his pacifier when she opened her mouth and begged for it.)
     Baby primates - of several different species - seem to innately like and welcome each other.  [Parental supervision advised.] 

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Lolita begs from Connor in Nov 2012
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Lolita kisses Hershey in Jan 2013
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Lolita hugs Venecia in May 2013
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    Michele Gawenka 

       Jane Goodall has always been my hero, and working with primates an aspiration.  Africa wasn't in the cards the summer I turned 16, when my parents offered to send me to volunteer,  and there was only one class (in physical anthro-pology) when I wanted to study primatology in college.  
         Decades later my husband and I retired in Costa Rica, and this is our journey with spider (and howler) monkeys. 

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