. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Individuation As the infant's pelage starts to change to adult coloration, a period of intense scratching begins. The relationship to pelage change is uncertain. Scratching, when it first appears, is uncoordinated, arhythmic, and often misplaced, sometimes even missing the infant itself and ending on the mother. Those scratches falling on itself may give feedback to help the individuation process. Scratching, like other individuation behaviors, begins in an uncoordinated manner, but becomes more integrated as the infant develops; specifically, scratching b
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Individuation As the infant's pelage starts to change to adult coloration, a period of intense scratching begins. The relationship to pelage change is uncertain. Scratching, when it first appears, is uncoordinated, arhythmic, and often misplaced, sometimes even missing the infant itself and ending on the mother. Those scratches falling on itself may give feedback to help the individuation process. Scratching, like other individuation behaviors, begins in an uncoordinated manner, but becomes more integrated as the infant develops; specifically, scratching becomes more directly placed and shorter in duration. The infant gains identity as it pays more attention to itself than to the comfort it has with its mother. The infant moves out from the maternal cavity more and more. It reaches out, explores things, explores itself, and explores other individuals in the troop in an asocial manner. Although the Colobus monkey doesn't ride on its mother's back during transit as baboons do, it, like other Old World monkey babies, does climb on her and use her as a base for pre-social play. The female tolerates the infant's behavior, although it sometimes appears to be annoying to her. Individuation marks the beginning of an interest in solid food. The infant shows interest in the food its mother eats by sniffing her mouth, as do other individuals in the troop. Such sniffing is common in most Old World monkeys; it seems to give the other troop members an idea of what the individual is eating. There is a period of mouthing of various objects. This is common in many other Old World monkeys and in humans. The infant mouths its own hand as well as parts of its mother. Mouthing is an important behavior of this individuation period. At the same time the hands begin to manipulate and explore objects as the infant grows. Later the infant integrates the use of its mouth and December 1972. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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