Sentences with phrase «observing chimp»

The data come from 14 to 17 months of observing chimp populations in Guinea - Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, and Ivory Coast.

Jane Goodall lives with and observes her chimps on their terms, not hers.

Expanded tissue folds around those grooves also follow a distinctly humanlike pattern not observed chimps, he argues.

A team of several dozen researchers reports online today in Scientific Reports that it has observed chimps routinely throwing and banging rocks at arboreal targets, resulting in the kind of stone accumulations pictured above.

When the primatologist Jane Goodall observed chimps in the 1960s, one of her subjects was a male she called McGregor, who suffered from polio.

What is your fondest memory of observing the chimps in Tanzania?

• «Jane,» Brett Morgen's incisive documentary profile of primatologist Jane Goodall, using astonishing long - lost footage of her early days observing chimps in Kenya.

Not exact matches

Even among social animals like chimps we observe simple moral behaviors.

AFAIR Chimps were observed exterminating neighboring troupes just for giggles (or territory).

Neil Harrison at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex, UK, says that finding pupil mimicry for the first time in chimps is extremely significant, especially the accentuated effect observed in the three chimp mothers, as this suggests they are more sensitive empathetically.

Researchers did not observe the first deadly chimpanzee raid until 1974, more than a decade after Jane Goodall started watching chimps at the Gombe reserve.

In addition to chimps, six monkey species, duikers, mongooses, and a porcupine died of the disease; overall, it appeared to be responsible for about 40 % of observed wildlife deaths.

«Many traits that distinguish humans from chimps are believed to have evolved more recently than the human — Neanderthal split,» observes biostatistician Katherine S. Pollard of the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco.

Although severe dementia has never been observed in chimps, the presence of both plaques and tangles suggests that it could, says study co-author William Hopkins, a psychologist at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Interestingly, the Americans lacked some of the strains of bacteria found in Malawians — and in gorillas and chimps — which fits with the general reduction in gut microbiome diversity that has been observed in people in industrialized societies, perhaps because of changes in diet and the use of antibiotics.

Walker says the new study makes him «certain that the chimp we observed previously wasn't an outlier of some sort.»

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.

Researchers have long suspected that chimps and other apes might engage in similar behavior, but they very rarely observe the death of a chimp in the wild, says Richard Byrne, a psychologist at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom.

Christophe Boesch, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, says that his team has observed similar behavior among chimps at Tai Forest in the Côte d'Ivoire and agrees that «we have certainly underestimated awareness of death in chimpanzees.»

In Pansy's case, zookeepers decided to allow the other chimps to stay with her as she died, while a research team, led by psychologist James Anderson of the nearby University of Stirling, observed their reactions.

In one study, a chimp named Santino — the dominant male at Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden — was observed collecting and piling caches of stones, then returning later to hurl them at people who had come to look at him.

Dogs and children similarly outperformed chimps on cooperative communication tasks, and researchers observed similar patterns of variation in performance between individual dogs and between individual children.

After observing these routines for 20 minutes, the remaining chimps were allowed to participate.

Observing how chimps respond to recorded drumming bouts could further demonstrate whether drumming contains a threat or a more benign message.

Although scientists previously thought that grieving behavior was limited to chimps and humans, researchers have now observed the behavior in several other monkey species, as well as elephants, dogs, cats, and even crows.

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.

The news made a big splash, but given what you've observed in chimps, is this evidence that primitive hominids were using stone tools surprising to you?

Also, just as with humans, there are solitary chimp drinkers and social chimp drinkers that like to imbibe with a companion, the researchers observed.

Not only do the complex calls of chimps contain specific information about what they are observing, but their visual cues can add additional information.

The researchers came to the conclusion after designing a series of experiments that involved observing wild chimps in the Budongo Forest of Uganda.

Over the years she observed easygoing mom Flo, macho Goblin, loner Fifi, and many more unique chimp characters.

And regularly take advantage of the situation in murderous ways, as has now been repeatedly observed among chimps in the wild.