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The scientists hid a realistic fake snake — a model of a venomous gaboon viper — in the forest and watched how the chimps reacted.

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

Observing how chimps respond to recorded drumming bouts could further demonstrate whether drumming contains a threat or a more benign message.

This is how chimps first acted when Gallup placed a full - length mirror next to their cages.

THE MOTIVE Jane Goodall publicized tool use among chimps in the 1960s, but the first written record of it comes much earlier, from a 17th - century Jesuit priest in Sierra Leone who described how a chimp with palm nuts «and with a stone in its hand breaks the nuts and eats them.»

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You think they want bunch of posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger kids to misbehave in schools across the country?

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

To find out how maternal rearing shapes chimp interactions, researchers watched two populations of Chimfunshi juveniles at play: one group of orphans and one of chimps that were raised by their mothers.

So, chimps do pay attention to how others are being treated,» he writes in an e-mail.

Sarah Brosnan, a primate behaviourist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and her colleagues trained captive chimps to exchange tokens for a food reward, then tested how same - sex pairs of chimps reacted to various levels of reward.

Sarah Brosnan, a primate behaviourist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and her colleagues trained captive chimps to exchange tokens for a food reward, then tested how same - sex pairs of...

You can really see how our own relationship with dogs might have evolved, because you'd think the dog would just chomp the chimp.

Finally, they taught the inexperienced chimps how to trade with tokens and food.

That means chimp societies might help us understand how human - like societies evolve.

The finding brings us closer to understanding chimps» trading habits and gives us precious insight into how trade, an essential cooperative behavior, works for humans.

(laughs) So now the thing in the article that I had never heard before that talks about how many sequences, for example, in a chicken and a chimp are much, much closer than in us and a chimp and that's really fascinating.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

Steve: What's really interesting is we are all always hearing about, you know, chimps and humans are 98.7 percent the same, 99 percent the same, whatever the number happens to be depending on how you do your sequences.

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.

«This psychological dimension to chimps» decision - making, taking into account how much a partner risked to help them, is novel.»

Now, a new study in mice shows how a gene, called FOXP2, implicated in a language disorder may have changed between humans and chimps to make learning to speak possible — or at least a little easier.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to make a decision imminently on how many of its 360 research chimps should be retired on the grounds that most studies can be done in other animals.

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

Researchers have discovered that seven chimps in Kyoto, Japan, of different ages and sexes, were able to learn how to play the game just as well as 4 - year - old children.

The chimps» actions, she would later report, set them apart from other nonhuman animals — and they may reveal the evolutionary origins of how we came to master fire.

Only about 5 million years ago human beings and chimps shared a common ancestor, and we still have much behavior in common: namely, a long period of infant dependency, a reliance on learning what to eat and how to obtain food, social bonds that persist over generations, and the need to deal as a group with many everyday conflicts.

But either way, the work suggests that chimps could help scientists better understand the disease and how to fight it — if they could get permission to do such studies on these now - endangered animals.

Few studies, «some very old and all inconclusive,» have probed how cognition changes in aging chimps, says behavioral neuroscientist Agnès Lacreuse at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Given how often people see images of «smiling» chimps or capuchin monkeys, apparently happy to be wearing a pirate suit or brushing their teeth, it's not surprising.

By applying social network analysis — the mathematical theory behind Facebook that explains how different individuals are connected — Rushmore found that high - ranking mothers and their juveniles (as well as high - ranking males) were most likely to transmit diseases to other chimps because everyone in the community wants to be with them.

A look at sperm plugs used by chimps may help establish how the last common ancestor of chimps and humans mated

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.

The NIH does not have an estimate for how much it will cost to maintain the chimps in sanctuaries or exact plans on where the chimps will retire.

This has prompted researchers to speculate whether the ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos looked and acted more like a bonobo, a chimpanzee, or something else — and how all three species have evolved differently since the ancestor of humans split with the common ancestor of bonobos and chimps between 4 million and 7 million years ago in Africa.

Another big factor in his decision was that «in 2013, Congress lifted a cap on how much NIH can spend on supporting chimpanzee retirement; and Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, a sanctuary where retired NIH chimps are being moved, has space for about 25 animals and could potentially take more later.»

The genome of this bonobo, Ulindi, shows how closely humans, chimps, and bonobos are related.

What makes this scene so interesting is not just that chimps are smart enough to figure out how to crack hard - shelled nuts, but that their method of doing so is specific to West Africa.

But the footage is evidence that her actions were planned and deliberate, and it shows just how resourceful chimps can be at using whatever materials are available as tools.

In 2000, Congress capped how much the agency can spend on construction and care at federal chimp sanctuaries at $ 30 million, a limit NIH will reach this summer.

But experiments to determine whether chimps and other primates do engage in selfless behavior have been plagued by methodological problems and arguments about how they should be interpreted.

One question is how NIH will pay for the costs of chimp retirement.

How does one chimp imitate another?

They also spend a lot of time wondering why humans can't work out how to unlock boxesPeanut empathises with chimps,...

How do chimps go about building a nest?

Pääbo has also found that differences in gene expression (how active a gene is) may have played a role in creating the gap between chimp and human brains.

Given how rarely chimps pick up trends, it's exciting that someone was on hand to watch it happen, says Andrew Whiten of the University of St Andrews.

They were able to track how moss - sponging spread and calculated that once a chimp had seen another use a moss sponge, it was 15 times more likely to do so itself (PLoS Biology, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pbio.1001960).