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Do Gorilla gorilla mate for life?

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All the males in a community (group of chimpanzees that live in an area of forest though they don't always all travel together) will mate with each female when she is fertile. This way, any of them could be the offspring's father so none of them will kill the infant. The more dominant males tend to mate the closest to ovulation and therefore they father most of the babies. Thus, every male chimp in a community mates with every female chimp in the community whenever she is fertile (which only happens a couple times every 5 or so years when she's done being pregnant with and feeding the last baby). Chimps don't have "mates" like birds or humans where they are pair-bonded to a specific other chimp except in some rare cases at one research site where a male and female will go off together for a few days, but even then, the female still will mate with other males before/after that.

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