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January 10

Drug Addition

I am a young teenage girl and need serious help from addiction — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.206.57 (talk) 00:02, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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I hope you are able to get the help you need, and wish you the very best. RoxySaunders (talk) 02:45, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Do chimpanzees prepare for pregnancy?

I dreamt that I read a headline announcing that chimpanzees prepare for their pregnancies, somewhat similarly to us. Presumably, that implies that they understand the phenomenon and so they try to keep the bearers especially safe and nourished, and situated somewhere relatively suitable for childbirth.

Then again, since it was a dream it was probably just nonsense. Although chimpanzees are similar to us, I highly doubt that there’s any species that has anything remotely equivalent to either ‘baby showers’ or medical assistance to facilitate childbirth, so I might be putting too much thought into it and they probably do not handle the phenomenon much differently from other mammals. —(((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 04:48, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Do you mean, prepare for delivery? There are indications that chimpanzees understand the concept of pregnancy.^[1] In the wild, the expecting mother knows that parturition is getting near and prepares a nest in advance.^[2] According to Jane Goodall, self-protective behaviour observed in expecting mothers in captivity is not evident in the wild, although possible during the final days of pregnancy. (Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1968). The Behaviour of Free-living Chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Reserve. Animal Behaviour Monographs, Volume 1, Part 3, page 223.)  --Lambiam 00:03, 11 January 2021 (UTC)