Sentences with phrase «chimpanzee mothers»

Worshiping a corpse is as sad, pathetic and primitive as those chimpanzee mothers who clutch their dead infants until their baby's skeletons fall apart.

«If I were a chimpanzee mother,» says Hrdy, «I'd be surrounded by individuals that might want to eat my baby.»

Imagine I expose the developing fetus in a chimpanzee mother's womb to gamma rays to induce mutations.

This haunting footage above was captured by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics showing a chimpanzee mother's behavior towards her dead infant.

Not exact matches

The poster features a photograph of ethologist Jane Goodall and one of the many chimpanzees in whose company she has spent much of her adult life (and who have inspired her passion for environmental care), accompanied by the caption «Even Mother Nature has an agent.

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.

Most of their bouts lasted less than 60 seconds, whereas the mother - reared chimpanzees were more likely to play for a few minutes at a time.

The human brains were from twins (identical and fraternal) or siblings; the chimpanzee brains had a variety of kinship relationships, including mothers and offspring or half siblings.

Taking matters further, researchers have found that chimpanzee and rhesus macaque infants and mothers spend a significant amount time gazing at one another, looking into and recognizing each other's faces.

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

The chimpanzees rated were aged 8 to 48, a majority had been captive born and mother - raised, and all had lived at the facility for at least two years.

Added to this, our ancestors probably weaned their babies by mouth - to - mouth feeding of chewed food, as chimpanzees and some mothers do today, reinforcing the connection between sharing spit and pleasure.

Nearly four decades of observations of Tanzanian chimpanzees has revealed that the mothers of sons are about 25 percent more social than the mothers of daughters.

Van Leeuwen and his co-authors Innocent Mulenga and Diana Lisensky compared the play behaviour of 8 orphaned and 9 mother - reared juvenile chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust in Zambia.

The young chimpanzees made fewer errors and were quicker to respond than their mothers — however, during control tests involving each chimpanzee working individually with a computer program, the mothers were faster, suggesting that young chimpanzees are better at paying attention to their mothers than vice versa.

At 30 to 36 months, chimpanzee infants start moving around more on their own without being carried and spend most of their time out of mother's reach.

«Since social play comprises a complex context in which signals about intentions need to be communicated, it seems that orphaned chimpanzees have missed out on valuable lessons from their mothers.»

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

The orphaned and mother - reared chimpanzees matched in age and sex.

«The orphaned chimpanzees had a lower number of partners they groomed and were less active than were chimpanzees reared by their mothers,» says Elfriede Kalcher - Sommersguter of the University of Graz.

Based on previous research, the scientists expected the orphaned juveniles to play less frequently and smoothly than the mother - reared chimpanzees: After all, the orphans had missed their most important caretaker throughout a sensitive socialisation period, and continued to lack a safe and facilitating social environment provided by their mothers.

Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother.

Of the six chimpanzees in the study — three mother - and - offspring pairs — all achieved high levels of accuracy from the outset.

In an earlier study at Gombe (Tanzania), immature female chimpanzees were also observed to pay closer attention to their mothers using tools and became proficient tool users at an earlier age than males.

In fact, young bonobos spent more time with their mothers, and had more individuals in close proximity for more time whilst feeding than young chimpanzees.

Project Nim (Unrated) Primate whisperer documentary about a chimpanzee separated from its mother at birth and raised in captivity inside a brownstone located on Manhattan's fashionable Upper West Side as a study in animal behavior.

Will Rodman (James Franco) researching a cure for Alzheimer's takes home a baby chimpanzee after its mother — supposedly a failed experiment — is destroyed.

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

The mother then stayed close to the body for almost an hour, later carrying it over to a group of chimpanzees that began to examine the body.