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Why grandparents are important

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Grandmothers Help Grandchild Health and Survival

Orcas or killer whales show similar patterns that humans have been showing. Grandmothers are able to stay with the pod and look after the calves while the mothers go out hunt. Survival is tthirty per cent increase in survival as well there. And elephants too, perhaps the most patriarchal society in the animal kingdom - we also see some kind of grandmothering.

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