Sentences with phrase «in gibbon»

Using similar machine - learning techniques to those used by Starner and McCowan, he has found 27 different fundamental units in gibbon calls.

The investigation found that lymphoma and leukemia were not recorded in gibbons until the 1960s when cases were reported in gibbons in or imported to the US from south - east Asia.

In gibbons, a part of the inner ear called the semicircular canals, which coordinates balance, is large relative to body size.

The researchers could identify a new DNA element that only occurs in gibbons.

Not exact matches

However, 98 % of our DNA is identical to that of a subspecies of chimpanzee called the «bonobo», next in relation is the other subspecies of chimpanzee (the better know «common chimpanzee»), then gorillas, then orangutans, then the lesser apes «gibbons.»

This agent was identified as GALV retrovirus, which was not native to the species, two years later when five more gibbons in the same colony were diagnosed with leukemia.

They found it was most likely caused inadvertently by the unregulated international trading of gibbons and laboratory work on viruses in US military and other medical research facilities.

The team also found that the unregulated trading of research gibbons at the time may have even caused GALV infection found in a monkey kept as a pet in a San Francisco apartment which went on to develop lymphosarcoma.

In 1969 cases of malignant lymphoma were reported in a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agenIn 1969 cases of malignant lymphoma were reported in a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agenin a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agenin a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agenin Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agent.

In a paper published in Mammal Review, the researchers crucially also found no evidence of infection in current populations of captive gibbons — an endangered species — and no evidence that the virus is still a threaIn a paper published in Mammal Review, the researchers crucially also found no evidence of infection in current populations of captive gibbons — an endangered species — and no evidence that the virus is still a threain Mammal Review, the researchers crucially also found no evidence of infection in current populations of captive gibbons — an endangered species — and no evidence that the virus is still a threain current populations of captive gibbons — an endangered species — and no evidence that the virus is still a threat.

Although they lived in a land richly endowed with carnivores, our ancestors could not run like the gazelle, burrow like the rabbit, climb trees like the gibbon, fly away like the flamingo, or fight back like the elephant.

Without any lower - body bones for N. alesi, it's too early to rule out the possibility that Nyanzapithecus gave rise to modern gibbons and perhaps Oreopithecus as well, says paleontologist David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona.

CUNY graduate student Elaine Kozma filmed chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, and other primates in zoos so she could measure the precise angles of their legs and hips when they walked upright.

Until now, we knew little about this bone's natural history, except that it is present in Old World monkeys and gibbons but generally not in our more recent ape relatives.

If the gibbons used this energy to jump vertically, they could reach a height of 3.5 meters versus the 0.6 meters humans are capable of, researchers report today in Biology Letters.

Videos of two captive white - handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) leaping from one branch of a jungle gym to another reveal that the apes break the record for work per mass performed in a single movement by any other species to date.

After tickling the babies of several colleagues and recording their giggles, Davila - Ross traveled the world, recording the laughter of baby chimps, bonobos, gorillas and even a siamang, a gibbon found in Southeast Asia.

Codename: Skywalker hoolock gibbon Name: Hoolock tianxing Compromised: January Known territory: Myanmar and southwestern China Physical characteristics: Downturned white eyebrows Notable skills / traits: ELITE STATUS: Tucked away in isolated mountains known as sky islands, these rare gibbons have taken careful tracking to find and identify.

Although the fossil looks a bit like a gibbon skull on first blush, Nengo says, its dental pattern and teeth shape suggest its closest relatives are other Miocene fossil primates from the genus Nyanzapithecus, also found in Kenya.

As well as lacking the bony elbow ridge that we share with gibbons, P. cataloniae also has a bony ear canal — a feature only seen before in a different, extinct group of primates.

Art, dance and music are not confined to human culture, they say: bower birds decorate their nests with an «aesthetic that resonates with ours»; gibbons «fling themselves balletically through the high forests», and «chimps delight in resonant drumming».

Dr Samuel Turvey, Senior Research Fellow at ZSL, who co-chaired the major international conservation planning meeting in Hainan that produced the report, said: «Ensuring a future for the Hainan gibbon is one of the most important global priorities in mammal conservation.

The last surviving Hainan gibbon population contains only three social groups, in which male and female gibbons still sing duets with each other at dawn.

On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes lived in an environment that favored a gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.

With only 25 individuals remaining in less than 20 square kilometres of forest in China's Hainan Island, the Critically Endangered Hainan gibbon is one of the rarest animals in the world.

The report identified over 40 key actions needed to boost gibbon numbers and ensure their long - term survival, including enhancing monitoring systems to keep track of remaining individuals, creating canopy bridges between forest fragments to expand their habitat range, and limiting disturbance by people in forested areas.

Only about 30 gibbons remained in the 1980s.

Comparisons with the genome data of humans and our closest relatives, the great apes, show that while we all genetically have the same ancestors, the genetic information of the gibbons has changed more rapidly and stronger in the course of the evolutionary process.

Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have compiled a list of gestures observed in monkeys, gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang - utans, which reveals that gesticulation plays a large role in their communication (Gesture, vol 5, p...

In the course of evolution, genes that favored the adaptation of the gibbons to their way of life, continued to develop.

In their genome analysis, the researchers discovered that the genetic information of the gibbons differs in their entirety from that of humans and of apeIn their genome analysis, the researchers discovered that the genetic information of the gibbons differs in their entirety from that of humans and of apein their entirety from that of humans and of apes.

It is only in the last few decades or so that the Chinese research team, led by Professor Fan Pengfei, has been able to return to Yunnan and establish a proper research programme on the gibbons of Gaoligongshan, which has allowed us to understand what these animals really are.

In conjunction with its policy of developing more naturalistic settings for the primates, the zoo has, in recent years, successfully established breeding groups or pairs of lemurs, lion - tailed macaques, Japanese macaques, gelada baboons, proboscis monkeys, slow lorises and gibbonIn conjunction with its policy of developing more naturalistic settings for the primates, the zoo has, in recent years, successfully established breeding groups or pairs of lemurs, lion - tailed macaques, Japanese macaques, gelada baboons, proboscis monkeys, slow lorises and gibbonin recent years, successfully established breeding groups or pairs of lemurs, lion - tailed macaques, Japanese macaques, gelada baboons, proboscis monkeys, slow lorises and gibbons.

Only a couple of decades later, the political situation in China changed, making it almost impossible for foreign researchers to visit the country, and preventing Chinese scientists from carrying out any research themselves on gibbons.

Under this scheme, Java Man, especially if reconstructed with gibbon - like body proportions, had an index of 1/2, which placed it nicely in the gap between apes and humans.

In a study published in the Journal of Anatomy in April, researchers led by Katharine Balolia, from the Australian National University, examined the sagittal crests — a bony arch at the top of the skull — of great apes and gibbonIn a study published in the Journal of Anatomy in April, researchers led by Katharine Balolia, from the Australian National University, examined the sagittal crests — a bony arch at the top of the skull — of great apes and gibbonin the Journal of Anatomy in April, researchers led by Katharine Balolia, from the Australian National University, examined the sagittal crests — a bony arch at the top of the skull — of great apes and gibbonin April, researchers led by Katharine Balolia, from the Australian National University, examined the sagittal crests — a bony arch at the top of the skull — of great apes and gibbons.

In an effort to differentiate Java Man from these later finds, Dubois emphasized the apelike characteristics of his fossil, giving rise to the common myth that he had decided Java Man was just a gibbon, and had abandoned his claim for its intermediate status.

They lack the long, strong fingers used by chimps and gorillas for knucklewalking, and the elongation of the hand found in the highly arboreal gibbons and orang - utans.

The icing on the cake comes in a completely unnecessary scene in which he dances by himself in a strobe - lit club like a lanky gibbon jumped up on Adderall.

A physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, who is board certified in an area of human medicine equivalent to the required veterinary specialty in cases in which a veterinary specialist in the area of medicine required for such animal's care does not exist, is not available, or can not be procured in a timely fashion, who provides medical care to a gibbon or siamang (Hylobatidae, Hylobates sp.), orangutan (Hominidae Pongindae, Pongo sp.), chimpanzee (Hominidae, Homininae Pan.

Other animals in the collection include hornbill birds, giant flying squirrels, gibbons and the Asian bearcat.

Half an hour Bali Elephant Ride Tour trek along the edge of the valley and enjoy beautiful landscape of our camp including elephant pool, gibbon, local monkey and bird in their natural habitat.

Walkways are slung between trees, where gibbons and hill squirrels slouch in the branches.

And some lucky ones may also be able to spot the gibbons that have recently been reintroduced in the area.

This morning I awoke to the sound of bearded pigs rustling in the undergrowth and gibbons singing from the treetops.

Biofuels will continue to pollute the atmosphere more than petrol or diesel, all under the veil of an emissions - reducing policy, and will increasingly threaten the homes of animals like the orangutans and gibbons that live here in Borneo.

In the case of the Hainan gibbon, a species of ape in China, there are fewer than 30 animals left.&raquIn the case of the Hainan gibbon, a species of ape in China, there are fewer than 30 animals left.&raquin China, there are fewer than 30 animals left.»