Boy moms more social in chimpanzees

Monday, November 24, 2014 - 17:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Nearly four decades of observations of Tanzanian chimpanzees has revealed that the mothers of sons are about 25 percent more social than the mothers of daughters. Boy moms were found to spend about two hours more per day with other chimpanzees than the girl moms did.

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