Review Lecture - The study of mother-infant interaction in captive group-living rhesus monkeys

Abstract

These studies of mother-infant interactions in rhesus monkeys were all made under similar conditions and involved similar observational techniques, several of them depend on the same control animals. The results obtained so far indicate that the task of teazing apart the interactions of mother and infant living in a group situation is one in which considerable progress can be made, and the methods used and many of the principles elaborated have a direct application to our own species. That human parallels obtrude even to investigators aware of the dangers of generalizing from monkey to man will be apparent.