Whether you're a human or an elephant, a baboon or a fish, adversity experienced early in life is often linked to negative effects on longevity and health in adulthood.But this tendency, seen across the animal kingdom, seems to have at least one exception: mountain gorillas.So long as young gorillas who experience adversity make it past the age of six, they will go on to lead lives just as long as their untraumatized peers, researchers reported on May 15 in Current Biology.
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