Sentences with phrase «chimpanzees at»

This research is made possible by the chimpanzees at Friends of Washoe and the collection of videotapes from African chimpanzee sanctuaries and field settings.

Each assistant was charged with rating 21 - 43 of 128 chimps, so each was rated by 2 - 9 assistants The animals were from the Kasekela or Mitumba communities of chimpanzees at the park.

«Chimpanzees at Bossou (Guinea) have applied their knowledge of how to make and use leafy tools to exploit a new liquid resource — palm wine,» she says.

I am struck by parallels with the case of biomedical research on chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health, which in 2011 was deemed «unnecessary» by an independent Institute of Medicine review.

Dogs are even more adept than chimpanzees at interpreting certain human signals such as pointing or gazing.

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.

Smith had two nature photographers follow five young chimpanzees at a field site in Uganda's Kibale National Park for nearly a year and a half.

Collins also asks Anderson to plan for phasing out funding for about 82 chimpanzees at the Southwest center that it supports but does not own.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

By systematically observing the spontaneous interactions between zoo visitors and chimpanzees at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden, researchers found that both species imitated to a similar extent.

One of the chimpanzees at the local zoo turns 1 tomorrow.

Kiki is a chimpanzee at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo.

According to figures cited in the report, a poacher may sell a live chimpanzee for $ 50, whereas the middleman will resell that same chimpanzee at a mark - up of as much as 400 per cent.

Not exact matches

Jane Goodall, a bona fide interesting person, left her home in England and moved to Tanzania at age 26 to begin studying chimpanzees.

In support of the idea, Braccini and her colleagues» looked at handedness in chimpanzees, and found that when the apes stand on all fours, they displayed no real hand preferences.

Just look at a chimpanzee for a minute... what do you see?

Look at the feet with the big toe spread away from the smaller toes exactly like a modern chimpanzee, not like people.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

«Man, last Friday I visited friends who didn't have a large male chimpanzee in their living room like we do at home.

At 83, primatologist Jane Goodall is still criss - crossing the globe as part of her crusade to save chimpanzees.

Readers are invited to insert their very own chimpanzee jokes at this stage.

Chimpanzees never learn to talk at all; is it okay for a human child to reach his or her seventeenth birthday without speaking?

Sandra Lee reportedly gave up a «prized» seat next to famed anthropologist Jane Goodall at the Cinema Society screening of Disneynature's «Chimpanzee» to Cuomo's daughter, Michaela.

Two chimpanzees that were caged at a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary don't have the legal rights of people in New York, an appeals court said Thursday.

During his 2010 run for governor, he came under fire for comments he made about the attire at gay pride parades, and for a series of emails he had allegedly sent to friends and associates over the years — emails that included pictures of nude women, videos of horses copulating with humans and material that seemed to compare African - Americans to chimpanzees.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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.

At the beginning stage of communication development, gesture was the primary mode of communication for human infant, baby chimpanzee and baby bonobo.

Psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species.

For Lucy, I chose a model that was at the sparsest end of the range for living chimpanzees.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

From December 2009 to August 2010, Rushmore recorded the interactions of chimpanzees in the community at 15 - minute intervals between 6 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., four to six days per week.

«The actions that were copied by both humans and chimpanzees were neither novel nor original and suggest that imitation was not at all about learning.

Then they compared the Dmanisi population with a range of fossils belonging to ancient African hominins alive at the same time, and used modern humans and chimpanzees as control groups.

A psychologist like Coss might have informed administrators that chimpanzees will avoid looking at a toy with prominent eyes, gorillas feel threatened by the blank stare of binoculars, and «one of the most primitive avoidance responses to form exhibited by man today is gaze aversion to the unyielding stare of a stranger.»

Researchers did not observe the first deadly chimpanzee raid until 1974, more than a decade after Jane Goodall started watching chimps at the Gombe reserve.

By comparing it with that of modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, plus Neanderthals and Denisovans, Meyer estimated its age at 400,000 years, twice as old as our own species and far older than any hominin genome previously sequenced (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12788).

Despite having a brain only slightly larger than a chimpanzee's, H. naledi displays key humanlike neural features, two anthropologists reported April 20 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Now a research team led by James Anderson at the University of Stirling in the UK has shown that chimpanzees also perform «contagious yawning».

Chimpanzees do this too — when looking at other chimps» butts.

They've found that most social species (from chimpanzees to social wasps) have relatively large brains and are cognitively sophisticated, adept at experiments designed to test their smarts.

Santino the chimpanzee is calm when visitors stay away, but apparently plans ahead by hiding stones to throw at them if they get too close.

Bipedal on the ground but efficient at moving through trees, Ardi suggests the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees was an ape with monkeylike traits.

IT WAS at least 7 million years ago that our ancestors diverged from those of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees.

This cover story is a look at what information has been coming out of direct genetic comparisons of the chimpanzee genome and the human genome.

Scientists from the department of social neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) together with colleagues from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) explored the question at what age we develop the motivation to watch, from our perspective, a deserved punishment and if this feature also exists in our closest relatives — chimpanzees.

The group claimed that four New York chimpanzees — Hercules and Leo at Stony Brook, and two others on private property — were too cognitively and emotionally complex to be held in captivity and should be relocated to an established chimpanzee sanctuary.

The team repeatedly flashed either black or white squares for 200 milliseconds at a time on screens in front of six chimpanzees and 33 humans.

And we really see that that's why you do look at this extraordinary difference between us and chimpanzees [in], for example, our mental capabilities and the rest.

«At NIRC they will receive veterinary care, enrichment, exercise, and gradually be introduced to social housing with other chimpanzees... [They] will not be used for any research.»