HANGING ON A chimp mother in Bossou, Guinea, climbs a tree for food while carrying her dead infant. Tatyana Humle
Pansy the chimpanzee died surrounded by friends and family who cared for her as best they could and reacted to her demise with silent somberness. Pansy’s story, as well as those of two mothers unable to let go of their deceased infants, raises the possibility that chimpanzees know when a companion has died and realize that he or she will never return, two new studies report in the April 27
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