{"id":754801,"date":"2018-09-28T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754801"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:19:36","slug":"gorillas-form-lifelong-bonds-with-other-apes-that-help-neighboring-groups-keep-the-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754801","title":{"rendered":"Gorillas form lifelong bonds with other apes that help neighboring groups keep the peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The observations showed that the male gorillas often got into fights with others to protect members of their groups. But, when in contact with former group members that had moved on to other communities, hostility between the males dropped. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHEYENNE MACDONALD:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A new study on African mountain gorillas has found that their lives are very much influenced by the lifelong bonds they form with other members of the group \u2013 much like human social interaction&#8230; In the study, published to the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from the University of Western Australia observed 10 groups of mountain gorillas in Rwanda over the course of a year&#8230; the researchers found bonds between gorillas \u2013 including between former group members \u2013 were critical in keeping the peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018What\u2019s interesting is people often have the perception that gorilla behaviour is very much influenced by competition for females or over a food source, but there\u2019s also a good proportion of behaviour that is peaceful as a result of long-lasting social relationships,\u2019 says lead researcher Dr. Melanie Mirville. The observations showed that the male gorillas often got into fights with others to protect members of their groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But, when in contact with former group members that had moved on to other communities, hostility between the males dropped. Sometimes, the researchers say they could even be seen playing and grooming each other. In many ways, their interactions paralleled some of those in our own daily lives. \u2018As humans we are friendlier if we bump into someone we know in comparison to people we don\u2019t know or trust,\u2019 Mirville said&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6181659\/Gorillas-form-life-long-bonds-apes-help-peace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQPek8bHjGk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEYENNE MACDONALD: &#8216;A new study on African mountain gorillas has found that their lives are very much influenced by the lifelong bonds they form with other members of the group \u2013 much like human social interaction&#8230; In the study, published to the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from the University of Western Australia observed 10 groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,21,24],"tags":[32,33,36],"class_list":["post-754801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-kisnship","category-science","tag-free-living","tag-intelligence","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754803,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754801\/revisions\/754803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}