Sentences with phrase «chimpanzees who»

The discussion of capuchin monkeys and fairness around equal pay for equal work (grapes vaued more than cucumber) occurs around minute mark 12:30, followed by a discussion of chimpanzees who will actually refuse the grape unless the partner also gets one.

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B revealed that chimpanzees who share food have a higher level of oxytocin, a hormone related to bonding and loving relationships.

The story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and a trio of chimpanzees who are struggling not to flee at all.

Certainly, the presence of two talking chimpanzees who are «mates» raises the possibility that they could have a child chimp that's as smart as they are.

All successful chimpanzees who used the same method as model A may have been directly influenced by this model during the observation period, but indirect influences may also have occurred during the test trials, if new performers watched each other.

Aggressive male chimpanzees who use their strength to sexually intimidate females sire more offspring than more passive males, a new study has found.

Male chimpanzees who bully and attack females more likely to successfully father babies with them, researchers find.

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

All of which means that story 3, about the shunning of chimpanzees who lose fights is TOTALL.......

Story 3: Chimpanzees who lose a tussle with another member of the tribe are shunned by their comrades for hours following the fight.

Chimpanzees who had never seen themselves in mirrors, however, as well as chimps reared in isolation, exhibited no patterns of self - recognition.

The only connection was when over dinner someone told the story of the pet chimpanzee who attacked someone and bit their face off.

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.

The Central Washington University researcher Roger Fouts reported that Washoe, a chimpanzee who was taught sign language, once urinated on him while riding on his shoulders.

There is also the case of a male chimpanzee who had injured his fingers in a fight and hobbled around leaning on a bent wrist instead of his knuckles.

Most notable was Washoe, a chimpanzee who became world - famous for her apparent mastery of American Sign Language.

Thanks to a chimpanzee who turns out to be a natural baseball player and a born matchmaker, a troubled minor leaguer's life goes on the upswing.

Project Nim / United Kingdom (Director: James Marsh)-- From the Oscar - winning team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate with language as he was raised and nurtured like a human child.

The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary was presented to Project Nim, directed by James Marsh, who explores the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate with language as he was raised and nurtured like a human child.

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.

One City in Two Continents, Europe and AsiaWorld Map, City Map, Travel Itinerary, Modes of TransportationEverything needed for an educational travel adventure, including a pet chimpanzee who gets lost in almost every city the family visits.

Not exact matches

macroevolution.net is the work of a single person who proposes that humans are hybrids of chimpanzees and pigs.

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.

Look, we understand if you need a dog or a cat or something similar to help with any legitimate mental health issues, but there are plenty of people who are definitely abusing this loophole so they can bring their chimpanzee or whatever onto a Delta plane that's already going to be loaded with annoying things, thank you very much.

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.

In May 2006, the same group of researchers who first identified the Pan troglodytes troglodytes strain of SIVcpz, announced that they had narrowed down the location of this particular strain to wild chimpanzees found in the forests of Southern Cameroon.

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

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

So when it comes to paternal care, the devoted dad who feeds his kids and walks them to school each day has more in common with a wolf than a chimpanzee.

She picked those non-human primates because they are the closest relatives in the animal kingdom, especially gorillas and chimpanzees, who share more than 98 % of their genes with humans.

So say researchers who have observed wild chimpanzees throw back fermented tree sap.

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.

Rushmore, who completed her doctorate in the Odum School of Ecology in May, analyzed the social networks of wild chimpanzees to determine which individuals were most likely to contract and spread pathogens.

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

Anyone who has ever locked eyes with a chimpanzee has probably felt our primate identity.

Because Neandertals are much closer kin to us than are chimpanzees, which diverged from the human lineage 5 to 7 million years ago, matching Neandertal DNA against our own has the potential to reveal genetic changes that help define who we are.

Environmental conditions can also override biology among baboons, who, much like chimpanzees, seem hardwired for aggression.

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.

Gorillas, who keep their harem close, have small testicles, while libertine chimpanzees have large ones.

Before McGregor got sick, he enjoyed hours of grooming from other chimpanzees, who picked out fleas, mites, and other parasites from his fur.

Researchers believe that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) jumped to humans who butchered or ate chimpanzee bush meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Some tests have shown that chimpanzees had some building blocks of theory of mind: They can deceive, recognize others» motives, and remember who is a good partner on collaborative tasks.

But it just as easily could have come from a chimpanzee, found dead in the forest and eaten by people who can not afford to pass up free meat.

But Laurie Santos, a cognitive psychologist at Yale University who has shown that rhesus macaques lack an understanding of false belief, thinks the «paper raises more questions than it provides answers,» especially because there have been «so many past results showing that chimpanzees and other primates lack this capacity.»

That study comes from behavioral ecologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who spent years observing wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.

The move comes on the heels of a letter sent by a who's who of chimpanzee researchers to Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), that sharply criticizes the bill, warning that it «would put extreme and unreasonable restrictions on future chimpanzee research.»

Seventeen raters who work closely and directly with chimpanzees used the scale to assess 99 chimpanzees in their care at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Bastrop, Texas.

«What we found is that there's this pattern, where dogs who are good at one of these social things tend to be good at lots of the related social things, and that's the same thing you find in kids, but you don't find it in chimpanzees,» he said.

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

Langergraber, who studies the evolution of cooperation and social relationships in wild chimpanzees, notes that there's compelling evidence in finches, crows, and gorillas that some behaviors — like learning to use tools or eat nettles that will sting unless they are handled just so — have genetic underpinnings.