Cyclical nursing patterns in wild orangutans
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601517
Abstract: Immature wild orangutans cyclically vary mothers’ milk consumption over 8 or more years, weaning later than other mammals. Nursing behavior is notoriously difficult to study in arboreal primates, particularly when offspring suckle inconspicuously in nests.… read more here.
Keywords: nursing patterns; cyclical nursing; nursing; milk consumption ... See more keywords