Sentences with phrase «chimpanzee called»

THREE years ago, an adult chimpanzee called Nick dipped a piece of moss into a watering hole in Uganda's Budongo Forest.

In the incident, a female chimpanzee called Noel at Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in northern Zambia sat down by the dead body of a young male, Thomas, whom she had previously adopted.

His extensive mating rituals rebuffed, a chimpanzee called Totti is enjoying a rest beneath the canopy of a rainforest in Uganda's Kibale National Park.

However, 98 % of our DNA is identical to that of a subspecies of chimpanzee called the «bonobo», next in relation is the other subspecies of chimpanzee (the better know «common chimpanzee»), then gorillas, then orangutans, then the lesser apes «gibbons.»

Over 2 years, she recorded 28 tapes — more than 10 hours — of infant, juvenile, and adult chimpanzee calls.

Not exact matches

We might think that a chimpanzee is exercising free will when it chooses to chomp on a banana, or a cat when it rips up your sofa, but what about the roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans — a simple creature made of only 959 cells?

Not only that but a striking and incredible amount of less genetic divergence than our so called «closest» relatives the chimpanzees.

Now I didn't call you stupid, moronic, lacking a brain, gullible, short sighted, lacking the moral graces of a chimpanzee or any of the other nasty things I could have said including a sodomite,.

I don't want to get into any copyright infringement issues, so let's just call this Obese Chimpanzee ice cream.

The chimpanzee and bonobo, formerly called the «pygmy chimpanzee,» are the two species most closely related to humans in the evolutionary tree.

The remarkable toolmaking talent of a New Caledonian crow called Betty has challenged the chimpanzee's reputation as the most proficient toolmaker in the animal world.

A bonobo, formerly called a pygmy chimpanzee, is eating fruit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Male bonobo chimpanzees employ a similar strategy, calling to nearby females when food is present, which boosts their chances of mating.

A stuffed python on a fishing line has revealed that chimpanzee alarm calls have intentional meaning rather than being involuntary expressions of emotion

Indeed, they have two mutations in a language - associated gene called FOXP2, mutations that are not found in chimpanzees.

«Another tactic, called a «bottom - up» approach, derives traits specifically for chimpanzees without taking into account information from previous scales.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimpanzees and bonobos, but aside from anecdotal reports from zoos, there was no evidence of it in gorillas.

Male chimpanzees use buttress drumming (shown in this video) as occasional punctuation to their more common pant hoot calls.

NIRC is calling it «the largest resettlement of chimpanzees from a U.S. research center.»

Chimpanzees have a sizable repertory of calls for the foods they love.

The altered grunts show that chimpanzee food calls are not as rigid as once thought, the scientists report online today in Current Biology.

Chimpanzees» calls are more stereotyped and less complicated than human language, but McCune hopes that comparing chimpanzee infants» sounds with those of human infants may help reveal what's unique about human infants» sounds.

The results challenge the accepted belief that chimpanzees need to learn from each other how to use tools, and instead suggest that some (if not all) forms of tool - use are instead within their pre-existing behavioural repertoire (what the authors call «latent solutions»).

Chimpanzees signal dominance and submission to each other through acts of aggression, such as chases and attacks, and through making a sound called a «pant - grunt,» which is a clear sign of subordination to a superior.

That study similarly analyzed fecal samples and isolated an AIDS - like virus, called SIVcpz, from 16 chimpanzees.

Although outbreaks are rare, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, and other so - called filoviruses periodically cause massive hemorrhaging in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and other primates.

The only other species shown to yawn contagiously are humans, chimpanzees and a type of rodent called the high - yawning Sprague - Dawley rat.

So - called common (but extremely rare) chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) live in male - dominated societies characterized by shifting allegiances and extreme violence.

Mutations in a gene called ASPM, for example, reduce the size of a human brain by up to 50 percent, making it about the same size as a chimpanzee's brain.

The researchers used the very large survey of human genetic variation called HapMap for their analysis, which compared human variations with the chimpanzee genome.

Other threats elicit other calls, such as bush pigs, leopards and, out - group chimpanzees.»

Well, it's the year 2029 (implausibility # 1: call me a pessimist, but space travel seems far too advanced in this film to believe that the year will be only a generation ahead of us... oh well) and a space station close to a nearby uninhabited planet sends off a chimpanzee in a space pod to do some stuff (it's not clear exactly what) and when feared lost, his bestest human buddy Leo Davidson (Marky Mark, The Perfect Storm) gets in a pod of his own and goes in after him.

It's called Project Nim and tells the story of Nim Chimpsky (seen above), the chimpanzee who in the 70's was raised from birth by humans and taught sign language as an academic experiment at Columbia University.

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I am very excited to see his next project with Disneynature called «Chimpanzees», its looks really cute and funny.

He writes with passion and sympathy about a regal Sumatran tiger called Enshalla and a tragically mixed - up chimpanzee named Herman.

In this episode of Max A Pooch's Awesome Animal Advocates learn from Debra how much like us these beings really are and why she believes her book is, «An invitation, a declaration, and a call to action, on behalf of all captive chimpanzees.»