Sentences with phrase «chimp called»

Comic relief is provided by another new character, an estranged Zoo chimp called Bad Ape.

Last November, an Argentine court endowed a chimp called Cecilia with the right to live in her natural habitat and ordered her release from Mendoza zoo.

After Leakey's death a chimp called Humphrey became alpha male, but he was weak and faced pressure from two brothers from the south, Hugh and Charlie.

Like The Lion King II's Special Edition DVD, each fact's arrival is by default announced by a sound effect, such as an elephant trumpet, a drum beat or chimp calls.

Not exact matches

Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or whales (OFD; also see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy usually resort to a type of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.

«The tamarin work didn't pan out, but there are now several studies that show evidence of theory of mind in primates, including work by Brian Hare, Josep Call, Mike Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Laurie Santos, Justin Wood, and myself on chimps, rhesus monkeys and tamarins.

Reg Morrison, who wrote a wonderful book called The Spirit in the Gene, says that although we're 99 percent genetically in common with chimps, that 1 percent makes a huge difference.

Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning

Today he lives in a sanctuary called Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Fla., where he can socialize and roam freely.

Editor's note: We covered this problem in an award - winning article called «An Embarrassment of Chimps,» published in the May 2002 issue.

Now, a new study in mice shows how a gene, called FOXP2, implicated in a language disorder may have changed between humans and chimps to make learning to speak possible — or at least a little easier.

When the primatologist Jane Goodall observed chimps in the 1960s, one of her subjects was a male she called McGregor, who suffered from polio.

Actually, what primatologists call chimp laughter is more like a breathy pant.

Their robot, called CHIMP, has legs that can fold up and double as treads when the robot needs to traverse rough terrain.

Some have argued that a predecessor to the parasite must have infected the last common ancestor to humans and chimps, 6 million or 7 million years ago, and then co-evolved when Homo sapiens stepped onto the world stage in a process called cospeciation.

Then for HARE5, the most active enhancer in an area of the brain called the cortex, they made minigenes containing either the chimp or human version of the enhancer linked to a «reporter» gene that caused the developing mouse embryo to turn blue wherever the enhancer turned the gene on.

In the Mahale Mountains, low - pitched calls would carry farthest, yet the chimps have relatively high voices; in Gombe's open woodland, high - pitched calls would travel best, but the chimps have low voices.

«It wouldn't be fair to compare the calls produced by West African chimps, who are larger and have deeper voices, with small East African chimps,» he explains.

Su's team found that a gene called the PACAP precursor stayed substantially the same across eons, but then, sometime after humans and chimps diverged, it evolved at warp speed in the human lineage.

When they call a system user - friendly, it is tantamount to dressing a chimp in scrubs and earnestly parading it around as a surgeon.

Female but not male chimps in neighbouring communities sometimes swap groups, and Slocombe says it would be fascinating to find out whether they alter their calls.

The peak frequencies of Dutch chimps» calls dropped dramatically from 932 to 708 hertz between 2010 and 2013, matching closely the calls of the Scottish group, which altered slightly from 657 to 597 hertz over the same period.

The peak frequencies of the Dutch chimps» shrill calls fell from 932 to 708 hertz to match closely with the low - toned grunts of the Scottish apes (Current Biology, doi.org/zzd).

One known difference is in a region called Broca's area, which is also involved in speech and is larger in humans than chimps.

Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimps and bonobos, but apart from anecdotal reports from zoos, there had been no evidence of it in wild gorillas.

When the actual chimps came across the snake, those that had heard the call suggesting ignorance from a troop member gave more warnings, through both vocal «alert hoos» and body language.

Not only do the complex calls of chimps contain specific information about what they are observing, but their visual cues can add additional information.

In one scenario, a hidden speaker played a call that suggested a nearby chimp knew about the snake.

Between him and the chimp from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it'd be a tough call.

I would snatch them from the arms of death and bring them to a sanctuary I would call Chimp Paradise.

I suppose Ninja Theory's QA team of brain dead chimps worried them that their game might be too hard so they added in an easy mode button called Devil Trigger.

I called my friend, and she says that they know the chimp folks are nuts, and they're just baiting them.

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