Sentences with phrase «if chimps»

«It's not as if chimps ever meet to eat,» says Wrangham.

If chimps drum merely to flaunt their physical prowess, dominant males should drum most often, the researchers reasoned, particularly when potential rivals or fertile females are nearby.

If chimps view hinderers as kindly as bonobos do, that finding would support the duo's proposal about human cooperation, he says.

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.

But the notes are so detailed that Feldblum could get a better idea of each chimp's social ties, for instance, by considering if the chimps arrived at the same time and from the same direction.

«If chimps with their small brain size can conceptually deal with fire, then maybe we should rethink some of the earliest evidence for fire usage,» Pruetz says.

So if chimps don't do it, what about young humans?

If The Chimp can go for # 70 millions after one good season, then Cavani who scored +30 goals in 3 consecutive seasons can go for # 50 millions — though now he might go for little less.

Not exact matches

If we evolved from chimps etc., why are there still chimps?

We and our cousins, chimps, are social animals and if some aspects of our social nature are not fulfilled, it can have detrimental effects.

Chimps will beat a rubber snake with sticks over and over again if placed in their vicinity.)

Young chimps just make the transition with mother chimp jumping in to intervene if the males were too rough with the initiates, but in humans rituals were created to make a stark delineation between men and children.

«If one chimp attacks another, third parties may intervene and take sides.

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.

The results suggest that pupil mimicry might have a long evolutionary history, says Kret, because if the phenomenon is present in both humans and chimps it is possible it originally evolved in a common ancestor of the two species.

Humans and chimps both involuntarily mimic pupil dilation in others — but only if those others are members of the same species

After chimps started acting as if they saw themselves in the mirror, after about 10 days, he anaesthetized them and applied an odor - free red mark to a location on their faces they could not see, such as above the brow ridge.

Apes that hadn't been first exposed to a mirror acted as if they were seeing another chimp.

G: Captive chimps, if they have the opportunity, form the most extraordinary relationships with dogs, absolutely.

That skeleton makes sense if australopithecines slept in trees at night to escape predators, as chimps do today.

Recent research demonstrates that the bonds of kinship will not keep a chimp from piling up stones and hurling them at zoo visitors if they get too close.

If the U.S. elects to continue testing on chimps, however, then it needs to adopt stricter guidelines.

Polidoroff says that Save the Chimps is still willing to take some of NIRC's animals, especially if it will speed up the process of removing them from the facility.

«If anyone is having a tantrum, we can pull over,» says Ali Crumpacker, executive director of Project Chimps.

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

If the project goes as planned, it will log the living conditions and mental health of most of the thousands of gorillas, chimps, bonobos (pygmy chimps), and orangutans in the United States.

If such discrepancies occur throughout the rest of the human and chimp genomes, there will probably be thousands of proteins that differentiate the two species.

According to classic behavioral theories, chimps should put themselves in such peril only if they have offspring or close maternal relatives in the group.

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.

If the courts were to conclude that chimps are entitled to the rights afforded human beings, some animal research could be affected.

NhRP also has more chimpanzees in its sights, though Prosin won't say if they are research chimps.

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.

If he's scaring off other chimps, then why not me?

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.

The researchers wanted to see if a second chimp would release the chain to help the first get food.

If the FWS rule is enacted as proposed, that would mean permits would be required to do research on the chimps, and they would only be awarded in instances where research benefits the animals directly.

This echoes prior research by Dr Newton - Fisher which found that if a larger number of other chimpanzees are nearby then, regardless of rank, the grooming chimp would usually stop grooming sooner than if there were no other chimps nearby, or a small number.

The only way the chimps would tolerate her presence, she eventually found, was if she lured them close with bananas.

However, Dr Newton - Fisher's findings suggest that if another chimpanzee with a higher rank than the chimp being groomed is nearby, the grooming chimp will stop far sooner than if not.

If you consider all the biochemistry and the kinds of structures humans and chimps have in common, then to suggest anything other...

Certainly in Africa, where we do most of our work, it's very, very clear that if you don't work to improve the lives of people living around chimp habitats, they'll give up saving the chimps.

Scientists have recorded cases of adult chimps apparently caring for fellow animals before they die, and chimp mothers have been observed carrying around the bodies of infants for days after their death — although scientists have debated whether the latter behavior represents true grieving or if the mothers didn't realize their infants were really dead.

Still, if cooperative breeding is so beneficial, why don't chimps do it?

IF YOU»RE impressed that chimps can use tools to hunt or crack nuts, wait till you hear what they do when foraging for honey.

Experiments by Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, show that if caged chimps are given the opportunity to pull food treats within their reach, or within reach of a neighbouring chimp too, few choose the prosocial option.

Peter Walsh, a researcher at the same institute who was helping a student with a study on the social development of young chimps, wondered if something akin to daycare outbreaks was at work in the forest.

The chimps» behaviour would be more in line with belief in a thunder - deity if they had been making placatory gestures or offering fruit to the clouds.

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

«These mutations happened during our evolution, so it wasn't clear if a human enhancer would function the same in a chimp as it does in human cells.»

For example, if a human HAR — one that turned up the human gene a lot — was injected into a chimpanzee brain cell, it would function the same way by turning up the activity of the chimp neuron a lot.