Sentences with phrase «chimpanzees made»

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.

As with the children, a significant number of chimpanzees made an effort to witness the disliked keeper being punished.

Her observations redefined primate research and led to the remarkable conclusion that chimpanzees make and use tools.

According to Frans De Waal even Chimpanzees make eye contact with others, especially after fights, to assess the mood in their relationships.

Not exact matches

What does nt make sense to me is how we as humans are made from chimpanzees!

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?

Even without a carefully articulated theory of value, we can make rough and realistic judgments that the subjectivity of the sea mammals is greater than that of fish, and that the subjectivity of a chimpanzee is greater than that of a chicken.

Statements like the one Speckhardt offered -(«We feel those (unaffiliated) folks don't yet know they can admit that they don't believe in God,») make humans sound like they are nothing but chimpanzees looking for any «ist» vine to grab on to.

Because he was not in favor of making the league too lively, Commissioner Charles refused to sanction the hiring of such obvious wild - card prospects as a trick - shot artist who could roll seven balls down the alley simultaneously or a California chimpanzee who bowled with both hands.

It makes distinctions between similar types of animals, like the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee.

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.

Turner briefly covers the use of multiple tools by other animals — humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and capuchin monkeys — and notes that only the New Caledonian crows and humans are known to make hooked tools.

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

The findings, appearing online Feb. 19, 2015, in Current Biology, may lend insight into not only what makes the human brain special but also why people get some diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer's disease, whereas chimpanzees don't.

Francys Subiaul of the George Washington University and his colleagues showed that captive chimpanzees are able to make judgments about the reputation of unfamiliar humans by observing their behaviour — whether they were generous or stingy in giving food to other humans.

No other animal, not even a chimpanzee, has ever been known to make non-functional markings.

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.

Horses, it turns out, can make 17 discrete facial movements, whereas cats make 21, dogs make 16, and chimpanzees 13.

The apes will spend their next month isolated from the rest of the sanctuary's 31 chimpanzees to make sure they are healthy.

Now, Vera Ludwig from the Charité University of Medicine in Berlin, Germany, and colleagues have shown for the first time that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) also make cross-sensory associations, suggesting these evolved early on.

We and chimpanzees are basically made of almost exactly the same stuff; its how it's all put together.

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.

A Duke University study has found that positive and negative framing make a big difference for chimpanzees and bonobos too.

When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food - hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees.

The list of probable cultural traits is not as long as that for chimpanzees, but orangutans» tendency to interact with their neighbors less than chimps do made the pattern of learning even clearer.

The chimpanzee virus could be used to make vaccines to various pathogens, including hepatitis, human papillomavirus, and HIV.

New Iberia, part of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, houses more than 6000 monkeys and about 325 chimpanzees, making it one of the country's largest primate facilities.

This leads to a brain three times larger than that of a chimpanzee — a fundamental difference that contributes to what makes us human.

Making his case for Tommy in front of a five - judge panel and a packed courthouse, he contended that chimpanzees are so cognitively and genetically similar to humans that they deserve a fundamental right to bodily liberty.

At the same time, chimpanzees enjoy much greater behavioral flexibility than gorillas, making it easier for them to survive in human - modified landscapes.

In one change, Collins said he plans to replace an oversight group made of federal government employees, the Interagency Animal Models Committee, that now reviews proposals for chimpanzee research.

Collins said his staff estimates the NIH currently funds only 37 biomedical and behavioral projects that use chimpanzee (the IOM report puts the number at 53), and that he wants the new working group to review each one to make sure it meets those criteria.

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Researchers suggest that one benefit to having the chimpanzees rated on the five core personality dimensions is that this information can now be used to make predictions that will help in their management, such as how individual chimpanzees will behave in various social situations.

«If the specific behavior of nut cracking with stone tools is posited for our last common ancestor, then one would expect a series of stone - tool sites that resemble those made by chimpanzees to be found in sediments dating to between 2.6 million and 5 million years ago,» Ambrose says.

The vaccine that has been tested in the United States was made from a cold - causing chimpanzee adenovirus that had been engineered to express proteins from two species of the Ebola virus, known as Zaire and Sudan (after their origins), and that was already available when the trial began in early September.

If you find yourself sitting close to a chimpanzee, staring face to face and making sustained eye contact, something interesting happens, something that is alternately moving, bewildering, and kind of creepy.

Thomas Rowell, director of the New Iberia Research Center in western Louisiana, which houses the largest number of chimpanzees among NIH - supported research centres, says that his centre «concurs in principal with most of the recommendations» made by the IOM.

Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99 % of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.

An institution, for example, might agree to make a financial contribution to a wild chimpanzee conservation effort in exchange for a permit to a conduct a specific study.

To make this discovery, Varki and colleagues compared three major CD33rSiglecs from humans, chimpanzees and baboons.

Chimpanzees spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass — all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had.

If, as some say, culture is any learned behavior that is shared by a collective, chimpanzees easily make the grade.

Every single facial muscle movement made by the children and the chimpanzees was recorded throughout using observation tools to precisely measure facial expressions.

Biologist Stuart Newman of the New York Medical College in Valhalla is trying to get a patent on a «humanzee» — a chimeric animal made from human and chimpanzee embryos.

Named Rudapithecus (the discovery was made near the village of Rudabánya, and pithecus is from the Greek for «ape»), the animal had a body and brain about the same size as those of a modern chimpanzee.

The chimpanzees did make facial expressions, but not in relation to how much effort they put into the task.

Children produced facial movements associated with effort and determination the more they tried to open the box, but the chimpanzees, although capable of making identical movements, did not.

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.

At issue is not just what distinguishes us from chimpanzees but what makes each of us who we are: that unique admixture of primitive ability melded with regions of higher function.