Sentences with phrase «chimpanzees living»

The types most similar to HIV appeared in chimpanzees living in the African country of Cameroon.

Chimpanzees living in Africa, where scientists believe a chimp first passed the virus that became HIV on to a person.

From a practical standpoint, caretakers of chimpanzees living in zoos or elsewhere can now tailor individualized care based on each animal's personality thereby improving animal welfare.»

But the attackers and their victims were chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

He says he would have preferred they went where his group's lawsuit intended them to go — Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit where more than 200 chimpanzees live on 12 islands on Florida's east coast.

Tommy the chimpanzee lives in a cage on private property in New York, according to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

«Human and chimpanzee lives will be lost if the proposed rule is implemented.»

The common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived around 7 million years ago.

Not exact matches

Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Placental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (a-pes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (a-pes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2

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.

Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Pl - acental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos 79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (apes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (apes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2

I saw a show where some lady was dressing up a chimpanzee or some kind of monkey and it was living in the house like a person.

If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal.

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

Although I've lived quite extensively in South America and seen first - hand the political corruption there so I have no problem believing that political corruption is a universal problem (probably having something to do with politicians being humans as opposed to being chimpanzees).

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

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, but what is it about the human brain that makes us so different?

The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious.

The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious and a new study suggests that human muscle may be just as unique.

Our species is prone to back pain, for example, because our ancestors» imperfect transition to upright walking essentially took a spine similar to that of our nearest living relatives, knuckle - walking chimpanzees, and forced it vertical with piecemeal adaptations.

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the latest link in a chain of ancestry that stretches back 5 to 7 million years to a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, humanity's two closest living relatives.

The two species of chimpanzee and the one living hominid — Homo sapiens — are the only three mammalian species to make eye contact while nursing; bonobo chimps and humans are the only two species to make eye contact during sexual intercourse.

The authors also describe their attempts to improve the quality of life of this chimpanzee, through providing and managing opportunities for normal social interaction.

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

Save the Chimps, Polidoroff says, currently has 254 chimpanzees that live on 12 islands, each up to 2 hectares in size, on Florida's east coast.

But Ardi's most important legacy could be the light she sheds on our last common ancestor, that mysterious creature that ultimately gave rise to both today's humans and our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees.

So we know that chimpanzees represent our closest living animal relatives, and they and their human line, sort of, parted company about six million years ago.

After years of experiments, a protracted battle to grant them legal «personhood,» and a life spent bouncing between two scientific facilities, two of the world's most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired.

His has done behavioral and cognitive studies of both chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries.

Chimpanzees, like most apes, live in male - dominated societies and use violence to maintain their social status and coerce females into mating.

According to Fouts, who helped teach sign language to Washoe, perhaps the world's most famous chimpanzee, the practice is just as common, and perhaps more long - lived, among the chimps.

Our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, also display behavioral responses to signs of disease.

«Tickling... seems to be very important to chimpanzees because it continues throughout their lives,» he says.

He and his colleagues obtained feces from 24 gorillas living in Cameroon, 47 chimpanzees from Gombe National Park in Tanzania, 24 wild bonobos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 16 people from Connecticut.

Now, it turns out one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, also dallied with another species.

To better understand why our psyche responds so deeply, Christopher Krupenye, a Duke University graduate student in evolutionary anthropology, and his colleagues Alexandra Rosati of Yale University and Brian Hare of Duke gathered 40 of our closest living relatives — 23 chimpanzees and 17 bonobos — and offered them options for choosing food: either one or two fruits versus a constant number of peanuts.

Bonobos are our closest living relatives (along with chimpanzees), but have been studied much less.

The genome of our closest living relative — the chimpanzee — has been released by an international consortium of scientists.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, have less than one - third as much brain — just 384 grams.

Howard Ochman of the University of Austin in Texas and his team sequenced the gut microbiomes of hundreds of wild chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, and those of hundreds of humans living in US cities and in Venezuela and Malawi.

The matching bill would ban invasive research on the estimated 1000 «research» chimpanzees in the country that live in laboratories.

From there, creating a living, breathing Neanderthal would merely require implanting the cell into the uterus of a chimpanzee, or perhaps into an adventurous human female.

Researchers from Kent State University's College of Arts and Sciences, along with colleagues from the George Washington University, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Georgia State University, Barrow Neurological Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, found that the brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's disease brain.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest.

Of this group, chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest living relatives to modern humans.

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«Even in Africa, you have different chimpanzee collectives living at different places at different times coming up with the technology independently.»

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.