Sentences with phrase «of baby chimps»

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.

Last year, news reports from Tanzania for instance highlighted the case of a baby chimp suspected of having «Down syndrome,» but chromosomal tests could not be conducted.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the England's University of Portsmouth showed that young orangutans and chimps open their mouths and breathe faster when they're tickled, just like human babies, indicating it's a universal response to pleasure.

At the other end of the spectrum, adult male chimps may compete for food and even hunt, kill, and eat the baby baboons.

Babies gradually develop similar reactions by 6 months of age, whereas chimps grasp only some parts of the concept of support without recognizing the physical impossibility of an egg «supported» by the side of a table.

The experiment, designed to study general behavior of reptiles in weightlessness, added to growing evidence that it's not just kittens and baby chimps that play, but also birds, reptiles, fish and even invertebrates, including spiders and wasps.

That's because compared with other primates, humans give birth to babies with larger bodies and brains — on average, human babies are 6.1 % of their mother's body size compared with chimp babies (3.3 %) and gorilla babies (2.7 %).

And then at the same time, when they were looking at the pelvis, and this caused a big stir at the meeting, so there's been this idea that Lucy's species, you know, the changes that you get in the pelvis from the last common ancestor of humans and chimps were to, sort of, make us good at upright walking; and then further changes to the pelvis that you see in the evolution of our genus which will accommodate babies with larger brains.

I am wondering what your commentary is on the diet of wild adult chimpanzees vs. the nutrient make - up of chimp milk for thier babies... I would thinking looking at the great apes and studying what adults eat in the wild vs. the nutrient makeup of the breast milk would give us an indicator of what we humans should be eating as adult in comparison to our own breast milk make - up.

Synopsis: In the 1970s, professor Herb Terrace and his team raise a baby chimp as a human child, as part of an experiment intended to break the language barr... [MORE]

The moral of the story is: Some people are awful, some people are heroes, and baby chimps are irresistable.