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Quite right, that's why I was referring to the overall ratio.
Some of the women have perhaps 3 to 4 kids, others only one,
other still are in advanced stage of pregnancy or stilling.
Even collectively, they cannot provide the kind of individual
mother-child attention we see in chimps, orangutans and gorillas.
In many cultures all over the world one can see children
being left to look after themselves for lengthy parts of the
day, elder siblings caring for the younger ones. In some
child games in some countries, youngsters are permitted to join
with the older ones, going through all the motions of running
around and getting excited, but you can't "tick" them, and
even if you do, they don't become "it". Every once in a while,
one of them gets accidentally bumped over and bawls.
The game stops, elder sis comes over and caresses and soothes.
After that the game can go on again.
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