Primate Parenting Research Paper

Primate parenting includes several distinct features that separate them from other mammals. One distinct feature is the length in time that primates care for their young. It is a significantly longer time period than most other mammals, giving the mother and offspring a very close bond. Another distinctive feature is the fact that without being raised by its own mother (and is instead raised by a surrogate), a primate offspring will enter adulthood with very little knowledge of how to properly survive, likely will not get along with other monkeys, and will have no knowledge of how to be parents to their own offspring.

Primates have a wide range of social groups. These groups include solitary, monogamy, polygyny (one-male, multi-male, fission-fusion),