Sentences with phrase «as chimps»

If they realize we care about them as much as the chimps, they become our partners in protecting the earth and the chimpanzees,» she explained.

As she points out, «Bonobos are as closely related to humans as chimps and are more in danger of extinction.

Life as a Writer Finally, two from John Scalzi — «Writers have as much (financial) sense as chimps on crack ``, and a tough love link on work habits.

If we had continued on the same diet as the chimps, likely we would still be eat grains in the woodlands of Africa rather than sitting here typing on our computers discussing it.

Great apes, such as chimps and gorillas, possess similar skills, but monkeys previously flunked tests that ravens could ace.

The rodents» crafty feat places them in the ever - growing club of known tool - using animals such as chimps, bearded capuchin monkeys, New Caledonian crows, alligators and even some fish.

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do.

And apes such as chimps and orangutans that usually avoid water can swim.

The largest males are as big as chimps, and the females of the two species are the same size.

All this suggests chimps and humans are cut from the same cloth, unlike peaceable bonobos, which are as closely related to us as chimps.

In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, «approaching us in the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to do.

Many chimpanzee communities — and all known communities of bonobos, apes that are just as closely related to humans as chimps — have never been seen engaging in intertroop raids.

That skeleton makes sense if australopithecines slept in trees at night to escape predators, as chimps do today.

Story number 2: Contagious yawning, where you yawn because you see your friend yawn can only occur in humans and other primates such as chimps.

Chimpanzees who had never seen themselves in mirrors, however, as well as chimps reared in isolation, exhibited no patterns of self - recognition.

In commenting on the results of experiments with pigeons and primates, Premack notes that since sentences contain both relational and absolute classes, a species» potential for sentences depends upon its having both, as chimps, but not pigeons, demonstrably do.6

«Humans share over 98 % of the same DNA as chimps.

Looking back, I was about as informed as a chimp with a barbell — but things somehow worked out nonetheless.

War for the Planet of the Apes (YouTube, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Amazon Video) In the final reckoning between humanity and the hyperintelligent primates we never should have created, sophisticated motion - capture technology made Andy Serkis's nuanced performance as chimp leader Caesar possible and snatched a Visual Effects nomination along the way.

However, a newborn chimp is found and kept in hiding by Rodman in his home, naming him Caesar (Serkis, Flushed Away) and raising as if he was his own child, which isn't far from the truth as the chimp, who must have taken in the drug while in utero, has accelerated learning and remarkable intelligence.

The missile dribbled down Brian's chest as the chimp screeched maniacally.

The cover photo sets the tone as a chimp sticks out its tongue, and images inside explain that chimps» facial expressions have different meanings from those of humans.

When a cartoonist drew President Obama as a chimp?

Not exact matches

One of the approaches some campaign owners take that can hurt them is broadly - addressed emails such as «Dear Family» rather than the more individualized «Dear Uncle Bob,» or sending out an e-newsletter via a Constant Contact or Mail Chimp service to introduce their campaign.

It was only when forced to assume an upright stance that a lateral preference emerged — although individual chimps in the study were equally likely to be left - handed as right - handed.

As an example, take MailChimp's literal «chimp» mascot, who makes everything seem friendlier, funnier, and more approachable.

Like Jane Goodall studying her chimps: it's all good, all interesting from her point of view — no such thing as a bad monkey.

As for Chimps, they and us had a common ancestor unlike either of us — and it made no choice either.

Just as girls might play house, chimps begin making sleep nests like their mothers when they're around six months old.

But Judge Fahey took the opportunity to criticize the First Department's reasoning in finding that a chimp can not be defined as a person and thus is not entitled to habeas relief.

You can also use services such as Mail Chimp or Constant Contact.

Two other chimps display other frontal tissue furrows that Falk had also previously described as distinctly humanlike.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suCHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suchimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Because the spinal cord entered the skull at the bottom rather than at the back, as it does for chimps, Dart believed the individual had walked upright — until then, considered an exclusively human trait.

Unobtrusive binocular eye - trackers monitored and recorded whether pupil size in the viewer — whether chimp or human — changed as they gazed at the various images.

As expected, chimps were more likely to reject a boring carrot when their partner got a yummy grape for the same token.

If you know them at all, it is probably as the most highly sexed of all the apes, but they are also considered by many to be our closest living relative — closer even than the common chimp.

The final bits and pieces completed, I jetted off to Uganda for 2 months (watching chimps and playing at being a «real» biologist... strongly recommended as post-thesis writing therapy!)

But the chimps» awareness of the mistreatment of others as well as themselves also lays the groundwork for complex social interactions more like those of human groups, they note.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

Neil Harrison at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex, UK, says that finding pupil mimicry for the first time in chimps is extremely significant, especially the accentuated effect observed in the three chimp mothers, as this suggests they are more sensitive empathetically.

After chimps started acting as if they saw themselves in the mirror, after about 10 days, he anaesthetized them and applied an odor - free red mark to a location on their faces they could not see, such as above the brow ridge.

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

While chimps have only two copies of the salivary amylase gene (one on each of the relevant chromosome pair), humans have an average of six, with some people having as many as 15 (Nature Genetics, vol 39, p 1256).

Apes that hadn't been first exposed to a mirror acted as if they were seeing another chimp.

That experience convinced him that to truly know the ocean, a scientist had to work in the ocean — or better yet, live in it just as Jane Goodall lived in the jungle to study chimps.

«Santino has a great time scaring visitors, and as the group's dominant male, he is showing the other chimps that he can protect them.»

Sometimes, chimps even attack people, as in the notorious attack in February in Connecticut.

When chimps possessing items of medium - high value, such as carrots, were offered high - value items, like grapes, they kept the lesser food.

And it is normal behavior for dominant male chimps to throw things at visitors, such as sticks, branches, rocks, and even feces.