Sentences with phrase «even chimps»

Such manipulation of new materials is beyond even chimps and other nonhuman primates.

Super-smart tool users, they can even use causal reasoning to solve problems, which even chimps can't do.

During this time, the stock market was sky rocketing, and my assessment (along with many others at the time) was that even a chimp could pick stocks.

Even a chimp understands this.

During this time, the stock market was sky rocketing, and my assessment (along with many others at the time) was that even a chimp could pick stocks.

Not exact matches

Even among social animals like chimps we observe simple moral behaviors.

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.

CHIMPS recognise unfairness, even when it involves individuals other than themselves.

FOR all their cognitive prowess, chimps will never create steam engines, stone pyramids, or even a simple wheel.

At the other end of the spectrum, adult male chimps may compete for food and even hunt, kill, and eat the baby baboons.

Sometimes, chimps even attack people, as in the notorious attack in February in Connecticut.

And it is normal behavior for dominant male chimps to throw things at visitors, such as sticks, branches, rocks, and even feces.

Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning

HIV crossed over from chimps to humans in the early 1900s, but no one even knew about it until the 1980s.

Even if we document all of the perhaps 40 million sequence differences between humans and chimps, what do they mean?

Even if chimps never develop the symptoms of Alzheimer's, knowing that they spontaneously develop biological signs of the disease could yield useful information about its early stages and potentially how to prevent it, she says.

If adopted, the new rule would restrict import, export and harm of the animals, and clamp down on research that uses chimps and even their blood or tissue.

This suggests that the chimps frequently felt compelled to reward Tai for her perceived unselfishness, even at their own expense, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Now, in a pair of studies, researchers show that chimpanzees will give up a treat in order to help out an unrelated chimp, and that chimps in the wild go out on risky patrols in order to protect even nonkin at home.

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.

Only 10 % to 15 % of humans are left - handed, compared with one - third of Yerkes chimps and even more of those in the wild — which suggests that there is very little specialization between the two hemispheres of the brain in chimps compared with humans.

In one case, two young chimps lingered in the outdoor enclosure one evening and delayed dinner for everyone else.

After tickling the babies of several colleagues and recording their giggles, Davila - Ross traveled the world, recording the laughter of baby chimps, bonobos, gorillas and even a siamang, a gibbon found in Southeast Asia.

The chimps» randy relatives have been seen using tools as shovels and levers in captivity, and even fashioning a spear to jab at a researcher

The experiment, designed to study general behavior of reptiles in weightlessness, added to growing evidence that it's not just kittens and baby chimps that play, but also birds, reptiles, fish and even invertebrates, including spiders and wasps.

Even if the same gene in chimps and humans differs by an A here and a T there, the result may be of no consequence.

Indeed, a close look at the chimp genome reveals an important lesson in how genes and evolution work, and it suggests that chimps and humans are a lot more similar than even a neurobiologist might think.

Subjectively, the team also identified more complex acoustic differences between the chimp's drum solos that could convey even more information, Slocombe says, though there were too few samples to analyze fully.

The same pattern showed up in a similar experiment with chimpanzees and humans: When a person with whom they had no prior relationship struggled to reach a stick, the chimps handed it to the person even when it required climbing up to a tall raceway.

The fact that different chimps learn different ways to act hardly makes them human — it may not even make them cultural.

The rodents» crafty feat places them in the ever - growing club of known tool - using animals such as chimps, bearded capuchin monkeys, New Caledonian crows, alligators and even some fish.

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.

Her detailed daily records of individual chimpanzees — maintained these days by other primatologists and field assistants — resulted in the first chimp personality portraits, as well as startling discoveries of chimpanzee tool use, hunting practices, and even murder.

Although scientists previously thought that grieving behavior was limited to chimps and humans, researchers have now observed the behavior in several other monkey species, as well as elephants, dogs, cats, and even crows.

His team says this could mean that the long - lasting social bonds chimps form influence their behaviour even after a «friend» has died.

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.

As such, scientists know a last common ancestor of chimps and humans existed, even if we've yet to determine the exact species.

That tool use is even more impressive when you remember that no humans have taught the captive chimps how to use tools.

Because the face and teeth resembled those of later human ancestors, the scientists said that the fossils were those of a human - like, or hominid, species — even though the skull could hold only a chimp - sized brain.

No other animal even comes close: Chimps have to be laboriously taught over years to use a rudimentary set of signs, and only when another species decides to train them.

«The HAR sequences in chimps are pretty much the same as those in mice, rats, dogs, and even chickens; humans are the ones who are different,» said Pollard.

Eight HARs showed differences in their enhancer activity when the human mutations were present.4 These differences modify how genes were expressed in the developing limb (HAR2, 2xHAR114), eye (HAR25), and central nervous system (2xHAR142, 2xHAR238, 2xHAR164, 2xHAR170, ANC516 / HARE5).4, 10 Because relatively few time points have been examined, it is likely that an even higher percentage of the tested HARs are active enhancers at some point during embryonic development or in adult tissues, possibly with human - chimp differences.

«Even though the chimp genome has been sequenced, it's amazing how little we know about their evolution and the level of variation within chimpanzees,» said Przeworski.

The history may go back even farther: recent anthropology speculates that the common human - chimp ancestor may have been bipedal and lived in open woodlands where starches but not sugary fruits were the predominant food.

Mars Needs Moms wasn't even able to match Space Chimps» $ 7.2 million opening and considering that film barely held onto a top ten spot in its second week, Mars Needs Moms doesn't have a chance in the world.

Not only were they forced, but they also resulted in a lackluster or even broken experience (looking at you Flip the Chimp).

He doesn't even enlighten Jen, in whose custody the chimp is supposed to be, instead buying her a replacement monkey to keep Raffles for himself.

The money chimp calculator doesn't even take into consideration that in the first two years, $ 1000 isn't fully going into the account because of the fees.

A favorite moment of mine came when Tom encountered a chunk of his office that had been transported to Hell, still full of workers tapping away at their keyboards like lethargic chimps, and commented that he was pretty sure they hadn't even realised anything had changed, such as the already Hellish nature of their dull jobs.

The goal of the game is to guide Donkey Kong through beautifully rendered stages like lava caves, tempestuous oceans and even a ninja - chimp fortress.