In the second study, chimpanzee mothers were observed in the forests of Bossou, Guinea, after a disease had swept through a group of 19 chimpanzees, killing five, including two infants . The mothers of those infants continued to carry the corpses (尸体) around, even as the bodies dried out. One mother carried her baby for 19 days; the other mother carried hers for 68 days.
“We have two explanations here – one is that there is a very strong bond
between chimpanzee mothers and chimpanzee infants,” said lead researcher Dora Biro, a biologist at the University of Oxford.
“Another possibility is that they were aware of the death and this was just their way of dealing with it,” Biro added, pointing to human inability to let go of objects that remind us of people we have lost.
Craig Stanford, a US expert, called the studies’ findings interesting, but said that although humans and chimpanzees shared similar emotions to some degree, it would be dangerous to extrapolate (推断) too much about chimps’ understanding of death.
have emotions similar to those of humans
58. According to the first study, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Pansy was separated from other chimpanzees until her death when she became seriously ill.
B. Chimpanzees seem to know the difference between life and death.
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