Sentences with phrase «as young chimpanzees»

Not exact matches

But I'm not sure the comparison to «animals» is a fair one since animals do not wear clothes nor are human babies as instinctual and as self sufficient as most animal babies... (I've never heard of a mother chimpanzee holding her young over a bowl to pee; --RRB- but as long as our children are cared for in a loving manner we shouldn't judge too much other parenting techniques.

Charles Darwin, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, noted that «if a young chimpanzee be tickled — the armpits are particularly sensitive to tickling, as in the case of our children — a more decided chuckling or laughing sound is uttered; though the laughter is sometimes noiseless.»

It may not come as a surprise, but mother chimpanzees seem to be important for the development of social skills in young chimpanzees.

However, in the second study, led by Felix Warneken, also at the Max Planck Institute, three young chimpanzees helped their human minder reach for objects even without any hope of reward — just like human children as young as 18 months old.

The researchers say that the apparent similarity between human children and young chimpanzees in the observed male bias in object manipulation, and manipulation during play in particular, may suggest that object play functions as motor skill practice for male - specific behaviours such as dominance displays, which sometimes involve the aimed throwing of objects, rather than purely to develop tool use skills.

For example, we have found that chimpanzees can perform as well as young, verbal children in some of these games, indicating that language is not necessary for planning and executing future responses.

The tale of Caesar — a bright young chimpanzee subjected to freewheeling medical experimentation, who grows up to become an ape - separatist revolutionary — was packaged in a bland Hollywood wrapper, as a love story between a lab scientist and his assistant (played by James Franco and then - it girl Freida Pinto, respectively).

With the story's last page turn, the illustrations change from ink - and - watercolor scenes of Jane as a child, toting Jubilee, to a color photo of Jane Goodall as a young woman in Africa, extending her hand to a chimpanzee.

The Chimpanzee behaviour is particularly nasty — combining as a group to target individuals, particularly mothers with young and then devouring the young.