Sentences with phrase «for wild chimpanzees»

For wild chimpanzees, social status is more than just a matter of pride.

The bottom line, he says, is if the rule is implemented, it gives FWS leverage to push for conservation benefits for wild chimpanzees.

Not exact matches

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The wild chimpanzees my colleagues and I had been following for nearly five hours had stopped their grunting, hooting and screeching.

Walsh says it will now be difficult for his group to find chimpanzees for testing an Ebola vaccine to protect wild gorillas and chimpanzees.

Chimpanzees, an endangered species in the wild, can no longer be imported for research.

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.

A team of primatologists headed by Kevin Langergraber of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, pulled together behavioural data on nine wild chimpanzee groups, and analysed DNA samples from 246 individual apes.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

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.

Roddy Gabel, who oversees import / export permitting for FWS, explains that research projects that do not directly benefit wild chimpanzee could still receive permits via «enhancement,» which is akin to a carbon - offset program.

«Female chimpanzees don't fight for «queen bee» status: Study of social rank in wild chimps shows striking differences between the sexes.»

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, and University of Tübingen, Germany, looked for the spontaneous re-occurrence of a tool - use behaviour practiced in wild chimpanzees where sticks are used to «scoop» algae from the top of water surfaces.

While in adult wild chimpanzees it is females that are more avid and competent tool users, in juvenile chimpanzees the researchers conversely found it was the young males that spent more time manipulating objects, seemingly in preparation for adult tool use.

Human researchers are killing wild chimpanzees by inadvertently giving them colds, a new study shows for the first time.

Away from the coastlines, there is evidence that non-human primates can hunt prey at unsustainable levels, for example wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Ngogo in Uganda hunt red colobus monkeys (Procolobus rufomitratus) at a rate that may lead to local extinction of the latter (Teelen, 2008).

Koops, in collaboration with colleagues from Kyoto University, conducted painstaking research tracking communities of wild chimpanzees and bonobos in Uganda and Congo for months, cataloguing not just all tool use, but also all potential for tool use in terms of the different environments and social time spent.

I am wondering what your commentary is on the diet of wild adult chimpanzees vs. the nutrient make - up of chimp milk for thier babies... I would thinking looking at the great apes and studying what adults eat in the wild vs. the nutrient makeup of the breast milk would give us an indicator of what we humans should be eating as adult in comparison to our own breast milk make - up.

He built the film largely from footage of Goodall conducting research on chimpanzees in the wild in Tanzania, material that had sat dormant in National Geographic archives for over 50 years.

Studies of wild chimpanzees have found that individuals have distinct preference for one hand than the other when using told.

To provide humane, lifetime care for chimpanzees no longer used in biomedical research, as pets or as entertainers and; to educate the public on the needs for conservation in the wild and protection in captivity.

She is the Director of Programs for the New York City Feral Cat Initiative, and also works on international animal issues, including wild horses and chimpanzees, for In Defense of Animals.

Mahale is one of the best locations in the world for viewing chimpanzees in the wild.