Orangutan mothers found to engage in displaced reference

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

A pair of researchers with the University of St Andrews has observed orangutan mothers engaging in displaced reference after observation of a perceived threat. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Adriano Lameira and Josep Call describe experiments they carried out with wild orangutans and what they learned from them.

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