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 …showed first 75 words of 846 total…

…showed last 75 words of 846 total…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