The phrase
"captive chimpanzees" refers to chimpanzees that are kept or confined in captivity, such as in zoos, research facilities, or private establishments. They are not living in their natural habitats but are under human care and control.
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Within - and Between - Task Consistency in Hand Use as a means of Characterizing Hand Preferences
in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
«I am deeply disappointed,» says VandeBerg, whose institution has one of the largest colonies
of captive chimpanzees available for research.
The proposed rule, which the public can comment on for the next 60 days, would create a new permitting process for scientific research
with captive chimpanzees.
A decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list
captive chimpanzees as endangered added another hurdle by requiring a permit to use any of the 700 research chimpanzees in the country in invasive research.
According to a December 2011 report by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee, Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research, the United States then had 937
captive chimpanzees available for research, 612 of which NIH supported.
The findings from humanity's closest relatives could help researchers to understand why people develop dementia, as well as suggest that caretakers of aging,
captive chimpanzees watch them closely for behavioural changes.
«It's not totally clear to me that one would need to do that same kind of testing in a group of
captive chimpanzees before offering this in the wild.»
He further singles out several experiments that he and others have conducted with
unrelated captive chimpanzees that clearly demonstrate sophisticated social learning skills, especially for tool use.
In keeping with an increasing drive to end most biomedical research with chimpanzees, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today announced a proposal to upgrade the status of
captive chimpanzee from «threatened» to «endangered.»
In March 2017 in Scientific Reports, a research team published successful lab tests of an oral vaccine against Ebola
in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
HSUS is a key proponent of a bill now before the U.S. Congress, the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which would ban «invasive» research
of captive chimpanzees.
Francys Subiaul of the George Washington University and his colleagues showed that
captive chimpanzees are able to make judgments about the reputation of unfamiliar humans by observing their behaviour — whether they were generous or stingy in giving food to other humans.
He studied wild chimpanzee in the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire, and he has done laboratory research with biological samples obtained from both wild and
captive chimpanzees.
Because they are in short supply,
captive chimpanzees are often subjected to multiple experiments, each of which can last years.
[Claudia Rudolf von Rohr et al., «Impartial Third - Party Interventions in
Captive Chimpanzees: A Reflection of Community Concern»]
To determine whether humans learn to associate sounds and colours from others, or whether they are innate and do not require language, Ludwig searched for the associations in
captive chimpanzees.
Late last year, NhRP filed lawsuits in three New York lower courts on behalf of four
captive chimpanzees in the state.
The first thing they noted is that wild chimpanzees and
captive chimpanzees are similar in terms of age of molar eruption, usually occurring when the animals are slightly older than 3.
Human beings live twice as long as
captive chimpanzees, he notes, despite the fact that the two species share 99 percent of their genes: «I think the key has been our social system — our mutual means of support and our ability to manipulate the environment.»
Different early rearing experiences have long - term effects on cortical organization in
captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Social learning of a communicative signal in
captive chimpanzees.
The National Institutes of Health will begin retiring many of the nearly 1,000
captive chimpanzees to the Federal Sanctuary System, leaving roughly 50 for future experimentation needs.
Use of gesture sequences in
captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) play.
Lambeth, S.P., Hau, J., Perlman, J.E., Martino, M. & Schapiro, S.J. Positive reinforcement training affects hematologic and serum chemistry values in
captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
She says that while doing research for her book on human relations to
captive chimpanzees, she became interested in the genealogy of chimps in the U.S.