Sentences with phrase «from wild chimpanzees»

Available reports from wild chimpanzees give further support to this hypothesis.

«My observations from wild chimpanzees show that while unexpectedly encountering a snake or snake model may trigger a startle response, they often then investigate the snake, but do not necessarily show signs of fear,» Crockford said.

But Hahn stresses that ethics prohibit taking blood samples from wild chimpanzees, and her own lab has only recently developed a way to quantify SIVcpz in fecal samples — which she sees as an important future experiment with the Gombe chimps.

The new study, published online tomorrow in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, examines partial sequences of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from wild chimpanzees in nine different groups.

Not exact matches

He studied wild chimpanzee in the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire, and he has done laboratory research with biological samples obtained from both wild and captive chimpanzees.

He and his colleagues obtained feces from 24 gorillas living in Cameroon, 47 chimpanzees from Gombe National Park in Tanzania, 24 wild bonobos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 16 people from Connecticut.

Researchers have long suspected that chimpanzees were the source of HIV - 1, the AIDS virus, but proof from the wild was missing.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

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.

When Peter Parham's postdoc first showed him data suggesting a gene in some wild chimpanzees infected with the AIDS virus closely resembled one that protects humans from HIV, he was skeptical.

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.

Like human kids bringing back bugs from school, play among young wild chimpanzees may spread respiratory infections to their families

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).

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation.

«As most of you know, I spent many, many years of my life out with the wild chimpanzees in Africa - kind of different from Pasadena.»

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.

Data from this study are therefore relevant to the behavior of wild chimpanzees and the potential transmission of chimpanzee cultures.

The «Four - Year War» from 1974 — 1978, as Goodall later described it, represents the only civil war ever observed in wild chimpanzees.

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.

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.

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