Social play with mother (VIDEO)

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Social play between two-year-old female Moby and three year old female Jane, mother Mindy on the right is watching closely.

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Tuanan Orangutan Research Project/UZH

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These are for editorial purposes relating to this press release and the study Jacobson et al. (2026) Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape. PNAS. They MUST be credited and MUST NOT be sold on to third parties.

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