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The M group has been studied since 1968, but complete identification of central individuals was achieved only in 1980 (Hiraiwa-Hasegawa et al., 1984). However, because some individuals and most of the males had been identified in earlier research, data from 1972 to 2012 were used for analyses. We observed 37 male orphans whose mothers died before their offspring reached 16 years old (i.e., before adulthood) (Table 1). Most of the orphans' mothers and the orphans' ages were known, but when an unknown young chimpanzee was identified with no mother, we assumed that the individual had been orphaned at the age estimated when first observed. For example, a male, Charles, was first identified in 1993 at an estimated age of 8 years http://www.selleckchem.com/products/bay80-6946.html old, not accompanied by his mother. It is very unlikely that an 8-year-old chimpanzee male immigrated to the M group by himself. Thus, we assumed that he was a son of a peripheral female who was seldom observed by the researchers, and soon after he lost his mother, he appeared in the central area. Thus, in this case, we assumed that Charles was orphaned http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Bafetinib.html at 8 years old. In order to examine the consequences of a mother's death on survival of male offspring, we fitted a Cox proportional hazard model (Fox, 2002): h(t) = hazard rate at time t (years); h0(t) = baseline hazard; x1(t) = 1 if the mother is dead at time t and tor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MYO10 because Mahale females emigrate to neighboring groups at about 9 years old, at the earliest, and we do not have subsequent data on the survival/death of those who were assumed to have emigrated into groups that are not habituated to humans. Therefore, we investigated instead whether female orphans died before or lived up to 9 years old. A total of 19 females were orphaned before 9 years of age. Table 1 shows the observed survival/death of male chimpanzees who were orphaned before they became full adults (16 years old) in the Mahale M group. Among 37 orphaned males observed so far, only 7 lived longer than the expected ages of death. On the other hand, 27 males died before the expected age of death. This difference between observed and expected ages of deaths was statistically significant (Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test, T = 521, P = 0.00014). The significance still held when we excluded 8 males who were less than 5 years old (i.e., before weaning) at the time they lost their mothers and were thus more susceptible to their mothers' deaths (T = 285, P = 0.0056). Figure 1 shows the probability of survival derived from a Cox proportional hazard model.