Orphaned apes played less than half as much as their counterparts with moms, initiated play half as often and had only a third as many friends, on average.
Ingroup males initiated play sessions as much as outgroup males, thus indicating that ice-breaking via play is worthwhile and beneficial for both parties.
Outgroup and ingroup males initiated play sessions at similar rates between each other (Wilcoxon's T = 8.50; ties = 3; Nmales = 8; p = 0.75).
Presumably, expectations for how relationships are initiated, played out, and terminated are based on prior relationship experience as well as relationship insights shared by others, and relationship depictions in literature, films, and the popular media [ 41].
Dolphins are excellent mimics, and the hope is that they will imitate the whistle to request an object or initiate play.
Sham rats were significantly less likely to initiate play with an mTBI rat, and were more likely to respond to a play initiation from an mTBI rat with an avoidant strategy.
It's a way of thinking about the game as much as it is a matrix of X's and O's, a basic football counterintuition that says the defense will initiate play and the offense will respond.
But the broader intent is to initiate plays and conversations that help merge disabilities into the theatrical mainstream, so that both the people who make theater and the people who go to it no longer think of "disabled theater" as a separate entity and pat themselves on the back for fostering it.
We tried to initiate play with the ball but it was just not to be".
At the same time, children are given the flexibility to explore the materials and initiate play within what the teacher has provided.
