Sentences with phrase «like chimpanzees»

The consumption of bushmeat, often originating from great apes like chimpanzees and mountain gorillas, is a cultural tradition in parts of Africa and it is not viewed as a problem.

While this is true, it is also true that the closest ancestor to humans is the chimpanzee but we do not necessarily eat like chimpanzees.

«Other apes, like chimpanzees, also don't have many ear movements, but numerous monkey species do.»

Unfortunately, because the specimen was severely arthritic, it gave the impression that all Neanderthals had bent knees and walked like chimpanzees.

Fashing says that the new observations demonstrate that «like chimpanzees, common marmosets are capable of interacting with dying group mates.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

Environmental conditions can also override biology among baboons, who, much like chimpanzees, seem hardwired for aggression.

Like the chimpanzees he would bond us with, Darwin recognized the utility of sharing rewards with others.

But then a locust is not much like a chimpanzee.

Playing Bob Cratchit, Gary Oldman looks like a chimpanzee which has had Gary Oldman's face grafted onto its skull, but still hasn't quite forsaken its old simian ways.

Brain Volumes Australopithecus: 350cc, 3 million years ago Homo erectus: 800cc, 1.5 million years ago Homo sapiens: 1,350 cc, Today Chimpanzee: 450cc, Today Just look at the facts: it took just over three million years for us to evolve from a creature that looked a bit like a chimpanzee into the disfigured oddballs we are today: naked, sweaty, upright, chatty, brainy weirdoes.

Two hours later, I walked out of the cinema grinning like a chimpanzee that just spotted -LSB-...]

Then again «casual» gamers are very accepting of challenge and will play focussed enough to become good at a game, unlike «hardcore» gamers who jump from game to game like a chimpanzee with ADD and only want to play the game to the credits so they can trade it in at Gamestop to buy their next game...

Not exact matches

What does the bible say precisely about animals, namely simian primates like Obama, chimpanzees?

Look at the feet with the big toe spread away from the smaller toes exactly like a modern chimpanzee, not like people.

That's because human DNA is 98 % identical to chimpanzee DNA — you can't successfully deny the facts whose implications you don't like.

I saw a show where some lady was dressing up a chimpanzee or some kind of monkey and it was living in the house like a person.

A chimpanzee - like creature was our ancestor.

Statements like the one Speckhardt offered -(«We feel those (unaffiliated) folks don't yet know they can admit that they don't believe in God,») make humans sound like they are nothing but chimpanzees looking for any «ist» vine to grab on to.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

«Man, last Friday I visited friends who didn't have a large male chimpanzee in their living room like we do at home.

May 29, 2013 — Like some humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk - taking strategy fails to pay off, according to research published May 29 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Rosati from Yale University and Brian Hare from Duke University.

«I was trying to get a chimpanzee to bring back home, like Michael Jackson's.

By studying different local environmental conditions, we may better understand why some men act like fatherly wolves and others act more like aloof chimpanzees.

It makes distinctions between similar types of animals, like the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee.

«Whether this ugly diaper - wearing little chimpanzee likes it or not, APC will be voted out of power in 2019 and sent back to hell where they belong.

Like lipstick on a collar, new DNA evidence is pointing to ancient affairs between bonobos and chimpanzees.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

The results showed that even though this hominid's brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it most likely walked upright like modern humans.

Although the act covers animals like dogs and chimpanzees, it does not cover rodents like laboratory mice.

A psychologist like Coss might have informed administrators that chimpanzees will avoid looking at a toy with prominent eyes, gorillas feel threatened by the blank stare of binoculars, and «one of the most primitive avoidance responses to form exhibited by man today is gaze aversion to the unyielding stare of a stranger.»

«Its position and shape are very similar to those of a modern human, but it seems to be more mobile,» a bit like the opposable thumb of a chimpanzee.

Olson, like Ondzie, works for WCS, where she studies how Ebola affects chimpanzees and gorillas.

Ardi is not particularly chimpanzee - like, and we've gotten a lot of extreme pushback on that.»

That ancestor, which until now has been thought to be chimpanzee - like, must have had a more monkey - like foot.

In contrast, modern apes like gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos walk on their knuckles, an adaptation that was always assumed to be ancient.

Because of our great genomic similarity (sometimes even cited as ~ 99 %), the presumption that we evolved from a chimpanzee - like ancestor has become increasingly common wisdom.

Chimpanzees, like most apes, live in male - dominated societies and use violence to maintain their social status and coerce females into mating.

Assuming some variant of a chimpanzee - like ape ancestry, the bipedality of Au.

Ardipithecus ramidus at 4.4 million years ago provides the first substantial body of fossil evidence that temporally and anatomically extends our knowledge of what the last common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees was like, and therefore allows a test of such presumptions.

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 surprisingly, our near relatives, the chimpanzees, are also avid laughers, although differences in their vocal apparatus cause their laughter to sound somewhat more like panting.

But scientists have found that high - ranking chimpanzees can act like cops: intervening to settle public disputes.

«If you look at a chimpanzee or a gorilla, those guys will look right back at you,» he said, «They act just like us.

A key to their argument is that the chimpanzees, like humans, can control their fear of fire.

When researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome in 2005, the biggest difference between it and the human genome was the extinct PtERV1 retrovirus, which inserted its DNA into the cells it infected like HIV does today.

Analysis of these bones has shown that the foot bones look much more like human bones than chimpanzee bones, except for two major areas: the toes of H. naledi's foot were more curved and their feet were generally flatter than seen in the average modern human.

That could be difficult in chimpanzees, whose groups are often separated by impassable features like mountain ranges, so they don't meet and are equally distinct genetically and culturally, says Carel van Schaik of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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.