Sentences with phrase «chimps living»

A team led by Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, studied chimps living in Loango National Park in Gabon.

In the 1970s, researchers discovered that chimps living in Guinea and Ivory Coast, on the far western edge of their species's range, hunted and used tools differently from their eastern cousins.

In contrast, the western chimp subspecies has no bonobo DNA, the researchers note, suggesting that only those chimps living close to the Congo River entertained bonobo consorts.

This is Tushi, a chimp living in a Netherlands zoo, who recently knocked a filmmaker's drone clear out of the sky using a long stick.

This is because, unlike most other primate species, chimps live in patrilineal communities, in which the males of a community stick together and the females move on to other groups.

Some chimps live very long too so should be good models.

That's why we're providing and promoting personalized care for chimpanzees (most of whom were retired from biomedical research) by helping them, for their remaining years, live a good life — the chimp life.

Not exact matches

A real return to nature for human beings would be a return to the gregarious life of the dolphin or the chimp.

Jane Goodall lives with and observes her chimps on their terms, not hers.

And of course Goodall saw the same thing when she lived with the chimps.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

MRIs of eight living chimps reveal substantial variability in the shape and location of certain features on the brain surface.

If you know them at all, it is probably as the most highly sexed of all the apes, but they are also considered by many to be our closest living relative — closer even than the common chimp.

That experience convinced him that to truly know the ocean, a scientist had to work in the ocean — or better yet, live in it just as Jane Goodall lived in the jungle to study chimps.

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.

Today he lives in a sanctuary called Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Fla., where he can socialize and roam freely.

The stories painted a grim picture of life in the lab, noting disturbing psychological responses in the chimps.

Chimps are our closest living relatives and share a capacity for emotion, including fear, anxiety, grief and rage.

Highly social by nature, they should live with other chimps and in a stimulating environment with room to move around.

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 the fact that chimps and bonobos, our closest living primate relatives, exhibit the same biases suggests they're deeply rooted in our biology,» Krupenye said.

If the project goes as planned, it will log the living conditions and mental health of most of the thousands of gorillas, chimps, bonobos (pygmy chimps), and orangutans in the United States.

The researchers were not able to link the biological changes in the chimps» brains to shifts in their behaviour later in life.

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.

Their arrival at Project Chimps suggests plans to retire these animals — which can live up to 50 years in captivity — may be back on track.

The second study, also published today in PNAS, looked at what motivates male chimps to risk life and limb on patrol missions.

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.

Chimps that live on the savanna in Senegal may hold clues to how early humans reacted to fire.

In her article on the mental lives of animals, Emma Young wrote, «Chimps... just don't get abstract physical concepts, like...

Animals that live in groups and defend territories, such as wolves and chimps, tend to be more violent.

Although Lucy had a brain and body the size of a large chimp — and probably slept in a tree nest — she walked fully upright and her species may already have lost its agility in trees as it adapted to life on the ground.

Previously he separated himself from Biblical literalists by accepting the antiquity of life and the Darwinian principles of common descent, and here he points out that certain shared features in the DNA sequences of chimps and humans show beyond any doubt that we and chimps share a common ancestor.

Chimps have complex social lives, play power politics, betray and murder each other, make tools, and teach tool use across generations in a way that qualifies as culture.

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.

The human version of the FOXP2 (short for fork - head box P2) differs from that of the chimp (the closest living relative of humans) in two places along the genetic code, causing differences in two amino acids in the protein coded by the gene.

For example, each chimp should have at least 1000 square feet of outdoor space and live with no fewer than six other animals.

NIH should retire most of the nearly 700 chimps it supports, end many research projects, and make sure that chimps still being studied are kept in proper living conditions, the panel's report says.

A decade later, Richard Wrangham, working in both Gombe and the Kibale National Park in Uganda, showed that chimps can act much the same even when they live in different habitats and have different diets.

One of our biggest programs in Africa is working to improve the lives of people in 52 villages around Gombe National Park and spread out through the rest of the chimp habitat in Tanzania — and we have similar programs in Uganda, DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo], the Republic of [the] Congo, Senegal and Burundi.

The hybrid of familiar face and tiny brain means Toumaï probably lived just after the time when chimps and hominids were going their separate ways.

Last November, an Argentine court endowed a chimp called Cecilia with the right to live in her natural habitat and ordered her release from Mendoza zoo.

Certainly in Africa, where we do most of our work, it's very, very clear that if you don't work to improve the lives of people living around chimp habitats, they'll give up saving the chimps.

He unpacks how chimps» brains, communication, and sex lives are far removed from ours.

From 2007, Pimu was the alpha male of a chimp group living near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

Based on their research from the Chorora, Kadabba and Ardi finds, the team says the common ancestor of chimps and humans lived earlier than had been evidenced by genetic and molecular studies, which placed the split about 5 million years ago.

Rest in peace: Talking chimp, famed biochemists, A-bomb pilot The science deaths came fast and furious starting last week when Leslie Orgel, 80, an early proponent of the «RNA world» hypothesis to explain the birth of life on Earth, succumbed to pancreatic cancer.

Actions to reduce the impact of the chimps must be carefully measured to balance the conservation of the important habitat in which they live, while protecting the lives and livelihoods of local people.

Their close cousins, the even less frequent pygmy chimps, or bonobos (P. paniscus), live in matriarchal societies where the stress is on reconciliation, all anxieties smoothed over by liberal applications of sex, in all possible combinations.

The most recent common ancestor of humans and chimps probably lived about 6 million years ago.

Chimps are our closest living relatives on the tree of life.