Sentences with phrase «includes chimpanzees»

They are also the least known of the great apes (which in addition to bonobos includes chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas), and remained unidentified as a separate species until 1933.
In particular, humans share an unfortunate «broken gene» with many other primates, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and macaques.
Other primate species, including chimpanzees and macaques, also cradle and carry their fussy young.
They included chimpanzees, Falk said, because they attack and kill individuals in other groups.
What's more, although cannibalism has been observed in a variety of primates, including chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, several monkeys, and perhaps even gorillas, all known victims of such cannibals have been infants or juveniles.
While animals like beavers and birds are famous for their nest - building, the great apes — including chimpanzees — are the only primates to build such structures.
Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimpanzees and bonobos, but aside from anecdotal reports from zoos, there was no evidence of it in gorillas.
I'd like to see a re-doing of all the great ape genomes, including chimpanzee and orangutan, to get a comprehensive view of the genetic variants that distinguish humans from the great apes.
It also includes Masai warriors, ballet dancers, sumo wrestlers, and animals including a chimpanzee, mountain lion, and flamingos.
There have been a ton of previous studies (study, study, study, study) with animal models, including chimpanzees, rats, pigs, rabbits, cats and dogs — all of them suggested the dangers of lack of daily exercise and its detriment on the dog's mental state.
As you build your park, you can populate it with a wide variety of animals, including chimpanzees, tigers, elephants and giraffes.

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Now I didn't call you stupid, moronic, lacking a brain, gullible, short sighted, lacking the moral graces of a chimpanzee or any of the other nasty things I could have said including a sodomite,.
These include an array of endangered wildlife, such as lowland and mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, drill, bonobos, and forest elephants.
This distinguished group includes Dian Fossey (the mountain gorillas of Rwanda), Jane Goodall (the chimpanzees of Tanzania), Birute Galdikas (the orangutans of Borneo) and Joy Adamson (the lions of Kenya).
During his 2010 run for governor, he came under fire for comments he made about the attire at gay pride parades, and for a series of emails he had allegedly sent to friends and associates over the years — emails that included pictures of nude women, videos of horses copulating with humans and material that seemed to compare African - Americans to chimpanzees.
The human brains were from twins (identical and fraternal) or siblings; the chimpanzee brains had a variety of kinship relationships, including mothers and offspring or half siblings.
Rushmore collected information about the traits of individual chimpanzees including age, sex, rank and family size.
Recently, however, researchers have found that other apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, seem to show signs of self - awareness, including recognizing and inspecting themselves in a mirror.
The virus kills several species, including antelopes, chimpanzees, and gorillas.
Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzeesincluding the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Rhythmic behavior has recently been observed in other animals, including parrots, budgerigars, sea lions, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees, although in the majority of these cases animals were explicitly trained to synchronize.
In it, he wrote that several factors, including the fact that no researchers have asked to use chimps, led him to conclude that the 50 chimpanzees are no longer needed.
The study adds to a growing list of animals, including dogs, chimpanzees, and monkeys, that are sensitive to what others can see and hear, notes Juliane Brauer, a comparative psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The chimpanzee virus could be used to make vaccines to various pathogens, including hepatitis, human papillomavirus, and HIV.
Investigators have observed geophagia in more than 200 species of animals, including parrots, deer, elephants, bats, rabbits, baboons, gorillas and chimpanzees.
A new report — titled «Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Western Lowland Gorillas and Central Chimpanzees 2015 - 2025» — outlines the growing number of threats to these great apes across six range countries, including the finding that nearly 80 percent of great apes in the region occur outside of protected areas.
Actions needed to protect the remaining gorilla and chimpanzee populations, and evaluate conservation success, include:
Great apes, or hominids, are a group of species that includes gorillas, humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, among others.
Crying as an emotional expression has been used to describe the vocalizations of many primates, including the coo vocalizations of squirrel monkeys and the whimpers and screams of chimpanzees.
Collins said that he is assembling a working group that will include a broad range of experts from outside the agency to assess the roughly 37 projects involving chimpanzees that the biomedical agency currently supports.
They also recorded the presence of 16 primate species, including monkeys and chimpanzees.
Although researchers know very little about nostril ticks, including which other species they infest and if they carry any diseases, Goldberg speculates that his might be adapted to live in noses of chimpanzees.
The most recent blow came in June, when FWS stated that all U.S. chimpanzeesincluding the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes (large, tailless primates such as today's gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) and Old World monkeys (which today include baboons and macaques).
Now, the family Hominidae includes those other higher primates, and the subfamily Homininae includes gorillas, chimpanzees, humans and our immediate extinct ancestors.
Those benefits presumably include learning the social skills that characterize chimpanzees, Goldberg says.
Using the comparative approach, we use observations, non-invasive hormone sampling and field experiments to address these questions in chimpanzees and other wild primates, including bonobos, baboons and sooty mangabeys.
This includes utilizing a modified chimpanzee virus as a vaccine carrier to induce an immune response against HIV, and a new therapeutic vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), a leading cause of cervical cancer.
One of the most persistent myths, however, concerns the relationship of humans to great apes, a group of primates that includes the gorilla, orangutan and chimpanzee.
The NCBR collection includes intact fixed specimens, as well as histologically - prepared sections from chimpanzee brains.
They include the gorilla, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons.
In addition, a new reconstruction has recently been made, and an examination of the meatus angle (the pitch of the face onto the cranium) for example, shows the following: common chimpanzee 49 °, A. africanus 47 - 53 °, P. boisei 53 °, and H. habilis (including KNM - ER 1470) 52 - 53 °.
After a six - year study of the chimpanzee colony at the Arnhem Zoo, he moved to the U.S. in 1981 to work on other primate species, including bonobos.
Her research expertise includes the effects of violence on and trauma recovery elephants, grizzly bears, chimpanzees, and parrots, and other species in captivity.
During their fertility window, the genital area of our female primate relatives, including baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees turn scarlet, most likely to attract males.
[Note: In the same year, Planet of the Apes (1968) was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers» outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981)- the Academy members presumably didn't realize the superior, too - believable makeup in the opening scenes of 2001 that included both human actors with life - like masks and infant chimpanzees.]
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Other notable documentary subjects include Jean - Michel Basquiat, who commands the downtown NYC scene of the late»70s and early»80s in Sara Driver's BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean - Michel Basquiat; and Jane Goodall, whose original expedition to contact a chimpanzee population is brought back to life via 50 - year - old National Geographic footage in Brett Morgen's Jane.
Included are 10 pages of bookmarks with photos of a giraffe, penguin, cheetah, monkey, gorilla, flamingo, owl, chimpanzee, and zebra.
One City in Two Continents, Europe and AsiaWorld Map, City Map, Travel Itinerary, Modes of TransportationEverything needed for an educational travel adventure, including a pet chimpanzee who gets lost in almost every city the family visits.
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