British media: Friendship helps his mother's mothers to spend difficulties

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Like human beings, young elephants who lose their parents also need friends to accompany them.According to the British "Times" reported on the 18th, a papers recently published by the "Communication Biology" magazine confirmed that social relations will have a significant impact on young psychological health.It is reported that the elephant has a strong family and group contact.Researchers believe that the parent -child relationship between the young and the mother elephant can reduce the pressure of young phenomena.

Unfortunately, from 2009 to 2013, there were many elephants in the Sangbru National Park in northern Kenya who lost their mothers due to drought or poaching. The researchers subsequently sampled these young elephant feces and found that these young elephants were generally stress.The level of hormones is high, and they are often emotional and disturbed.However, after a few years, the researchers found that the level of stress in these young elephant feces is almost the same as that of ordinary elephants.Professor Parker, the main author of this paper, said that it was the care and care of other elephants that made the young elephants survive the hard time to lose their mother.(Miao Tao)

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