Jakucińska Anna, Trojan Maciej, Sikorska Julia, Farley Dominika
Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw, 1/3 Ratuszowa St., Warsaw, Poland.
Department of Ethology and Comparative Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 39 Gagarina St., Toruń, Poland.
Primates. 2020 Jan;61(1):103-109. doi: 10.1007/s10329-019-00772-7. Epub 2019 Nov 15.
In March 2017, the oldest female of a group of chimpanzees living in the Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw, died in her sleep at the age of 53, due to natural causes. The article reports reactions of the eight other individuals in the group, four males and four females, including the daughter and the granddaughter of the old female, the following day. The corpse generally elicited more interest in the females than in the adult males. The females touched the body gently and groomed it more often than the males, who tended simply to look at and sniff it. However, the most diverse reactions, ranging from gentle touching to jumping on and hitting the corpse, were seen in the youngest male. By contrast, the oldest male never approached the corpse. In general, the chimpanzees at the zoo reacted in a manner much milder than is often reported from the wild.
2017年3月，生活在华沙市立动物园的一群黑猩猩中最年长的雌性，在睡梦中自然死亡，享年53岁。文章报道了第二天该群体中其他八只个体的反应，其中包括四名雄性和四名雌性，包括这只年老雌性的女儿和孙女。这具尸体通常引起雌性的兴趣比成年雄性更大。雌性比雄性更频繁地轻轻触摸并梳理尸体，而雄性则往往只是看着并嗅闻它。然而，在最年轻的雄性身上观察到了最多样化的反应，从轻轻触摸到跳到尸体上并击打它。相比之下，最年长的雄性从未靠近过尸体。总体而言，动物园里的黑猩猩的反应比通常在野外报道的要温和得多。
