The Mother's Role.

The Mother's Role In the chimpanzee society, an infant would not survive without his mother. A child is dependent on his mother from infancy through adolescence, thus making a mother/child relationship special, and a mother's role vital. Births are relatively few in a chimpanzee community, making them something of an event (Goodall, Shadow 146). A mother will only have a baby once every four and a half to six years, and a group of thirty …

…development. Without the mother's role, it would be impossible for the chimpanzee society to exist. LIST OF WORKS CITED Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971 Landau, Virginia. "Mother and Newly Born Infant." The Chimpanzee Learning Cards. ChimpanZoo, 1999. 01 Oct 2000 <http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vlandau/clc/clc4.htm> Landau, Virginia. "Mothering and Play." The Chimpanzee Learning Cards. ChimpanZoo, 1999. 01 Oct 2000 <http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vlandau/clc/clc7.htm