Sentences with phrase «from other chimpanzees»

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

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At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At the Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands, for example, he watched male chimpanzees join forces for months to topple the highest - ranking male, females band together to protect each other from male aggression, and the whole colony dole out revenge when required.

But Goodall watched in amazement as the other chimpanzees stayed away from him once he became ill.

Diseases such as HIV, however, which almost certainly began as a spillover from chimpanzees, are no longer considered to be zoonotic as the chain of transmission from humans to other humans is continuous and no longer relies on spillover to sustain transmission.

Many belong to entirely new groups, as different from other microbes as an insect is from a chimpanzee.

The human and chimpanzee lineages split off from each other between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

Research by Dr Nicholas Newton - Fisher from the University of Kent has found chimpanzees modify their interactions with other chimpanzees if higher ranking members of their community are nearby.

The discovery occurred 3 years after seven adult chimpanzees (one shown in the photo above) from a safari park in the Netherlands were moved in with six other adults at Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo in 2010.

Orangutans were next, followed by gorillas, with the chimpanzees and human lineages diverging from each other last.

For a start, the degree to which we know stuff and know what others know is quite possibly what separates humans from everything else on the planet, from rocks to chimpanzees (see «Knowledge: Of chimps, curiosity and quantum mechanics «-RRB-.

Evolutionary biologists aren't sure why breasts evolved as they did — chimpanzees and other mammals develop them only when lactating — and no one knows what keeps them from sagging.

The results challenge the accepted belief that chimpanzees need to learn from each other how to use tools, and instead suggest that some (if not all) forms of tool - use are instead within their pre-existing behavioural repertoire (what the authors call «latent solutions»).

She decided it definitively because it's absolutely clear from her pelvis and other features that she walked upright on two legs just like we do and yet her brain is no larger than a chimpanzee's brain.

Tantalisingly, the stowaway virus might even provide clues to what makes us different from chimpanzees and other non-human primates.

Conversely, genetic diversity increased when individuals were less selective about their mates — as is the case in chimpanzees or gorillas, which mate whenever possible with individuals from other groups.

From an evolutionary standpoint, he adds, «comparisons of the gene in humans to those in chimpanzees and other primates... could add to our understanding of how human language evolved.

If you compare any two people from far - flung corners of the globe, their genomes will be much more similar than those of any pair of chimpanzees, gorillas, or other apes from different populations.

Davila Ross notes that other researchers have heard similar sounds from chimpanzees, too.

Although the gene sequences from human and chimpanzee remain very similar, previous studies in tissues other than the brain have shown that gene expression varies widely.

The research presented in this video aims at understanding the cultures of wild chimpanzee populations in several African countries and how they differ from each other.

I took these comparative genomic scans to the next level by writing a computer program to identify DNA sequences that are conserved in other animals but have changed rapidly in humans since we evolved from our common ancestor with chimpanzees.

While baring your teeth might be friendly among Homo sapiens, it can be a deadly threat among a host of other animals, from chimpanzees to wolves.

Together with his other books for general readers, such as The Ape and the Sushi Master, Bonobo, Peacemaking Among Primates, and Chimpanzee Politics, you get a good view of what the ape - human transition might have been from.

In hopes of learning more about the phenomenon, Allison compared his findings with 24 other data samples collected for animals ranging from domesticated dogs and cats to feral rats and chimpanzees used for research — and what it pointed to was quite troubling.