Weight gain in captive chimpanzee infants: Comparisons by sex, rearing, and colony

✍ Scribed by Mary W. Marzke; Dennis Young; Jo Fritz

• Book ID: 102656138
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0275-2565
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1996)38:2<133::aid-ajp2>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

Weight gain has been monitored for 13 years in a mixed longitudinal study of captive chimpanzee growth and development. This report presents results of a comparative analysis of weight relative to age in 175 animals during the first 24 months in four sexhearing groups (hand-reared females, hand-reared males, mother-reared females, and mother-reared males) from three colonies with different physical, nutritional, and social environments (Primate Foundation of Arizona, University of Texas M.D.