Sentences with phrase «infant chimpanzees»

[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.]

Louis Bolk, and later Gavin De Beer, Desmond Morris and Stephen Jay Gould, observed that human beings have more in common with infant chimpanzees than with their adult parents.

The Humane Society gave ScienceInsider a copy of a $ 6.2 million grant from NIH to New Iberia that explicitly pays the facility to supply researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with four to 12 infant chimpanzees between September 2002 and 2009.

Human infants are born with a brain that is only a quarter of its adult volume (compared to 50 % for infant chimpanzees and gorillas) due to the constraints of a birth canal that has been modified to accommodate upright walking.

The skull of an infant chimpanzee looks remarkably like one of ours — in fact, it looks more human than the skull of an adult chimpanzee.

Not exact matches

Worshiping a corpse is as sad, pathetic and primitive as those chimpanzee mothers who clutch their dead infants until their baby's skeletons fall apart.

At the beginning stage of communication development, gesture was the primary mode of communication for human infant, baby chimpanzee and baby bonobo.

Psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species.

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.

«Vengeance is sweet and expensive: Even chimpanzees, infants want to punish antisocial behavior.»

The Humane Society also has evidence, provided to ScienceInsider, that the U.S. National Institutes of Health violated its own moratorium on breeding chimpanzees for biomedical research, awarding New Iberia a contract to provide infant chimps to government investigators.

Taking matters further, researchers have found that chimpanzee and rhesus macaque infants and mothers spend a significant amount time gazing at one another, looking into and recognizing each other's faces.

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

Over 2 years, she recorded 28 tapes — more than 10 hours — of infant, juvenile, and adult chimpanzee calls.

Chimpanzees» calls are more stereotyped and less complicated than human language, but McCune hopes that comparing chimpanzee infants» sounds with those of human infants may help reveal what's unique about human infants» sounds.

Chimpanzees have a male - dominated society in which rank is a constant struggle and females with infants might face physical violence and even infanticide.

Despite the benefits of social status on their reproductive success — higher - ranking females appear to have access to better food and higher infant survival than their low - ranking counterparts — the tendency of female chimpanzees to «wait their turn» rather than fighting for rank reveals the competing priorities males and females face when ensuring the success of their offspring.

At 30 to 36 months, chimpanzee infants start moving around more on their own without being carried and spend most of their time out of mother's reach.

Temporarily, they built a cage for their infant, so that the chimpanzees couldn't get to the child.

Chimpanzee males don't like the infants of other males, and will kill them.

This haunting footage above was captured by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics showing a chimpanzee mother's behavior towards her dead infant.

Dr. Cronin and doctoral student Edwin Van Leeuwen monitored the behaviour of a female chimpanzee that had recently lost her 16 - month - old infant.