Auntie

Definition of Auntie

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Like all African elephants, this sweet one-day old babe will be raised by mom as well as his "allomothers.". credit: John Vosloo/bioGraphic

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Records about Auntie from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Auntie: [see also: Allomother] (Villiams 1950:60-61) Female--often an older daughter--that stays with a mother and helps out with the newborn baby. Auntie and Allomother are similar; in general the latter is a more prolonged assistance with the young.

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Auntie. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=65. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Records about Auntie from the Gajah Glossary, https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf

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