Sentences with phrase «of chimpanzee behavior»

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

THE MEANING «This is an important paper because it provides evidence for the minimum age of the chimpanzee behavior of cracking nuts with stone tools,» says Stanley Ambrose, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Not exact matches

Churchill believes that human behavior is actually something of a mosaic of traits demonstrated by chimpanzees and bonobos.

Indeed, chimpanzees and bonobos display bouts of rhythmic drumming as part of display or play behavior.

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.

The behavior of our species is a blend of the same tendencies seen in aggressive chimpanzees (above) and more social, prosexual bonobos.

Curious to see if orangutan researchers could come up with a list of behaviors similar to that compiled by chimpanzee researchers, van Schaik invited his colleagues to a 3 - day meeting to compare notes.

In 1999, chimpanzee researchers reported 39 examples of behaviors that were specific to particular groups and did not seem to be determined by the environment (Science, 25 June 1999, p. 2070).

The behavior of the elephants in the study is similar to that of chimpanzees, which reassure each other by putting their hands in each other's mouths, he said.

Hauser himself, a professor of psychology, human evolutionary biology, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and codirector of the school's Mind / Brain / Behavior Initiative, has analyzed the antics of tamarins, vervet monkeys, macaques, and starlings in captivity, as well as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees in the wild.

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.»

«If the specific behavior of nut cracking with stone tools is posited for our last common ancestor, then one would expect a series of stone - tool sites that resemble those made by chimpanzees to be found in sediments dating to between 2.6 million and 5 million years ago,» Ambrose says.

Langergraber, who studies the evolution of cooperation and social relationships in wild chimpanzees, notes that there's compelling evidence in finches, crows, and gorillas that some behaviors — like learning to use tools or eat nettles that will sting unless they are handled just so — have genetic underpinnings.

Genetics and specific brain regions are linked to sex differences in chimpanzees» scratching behavior, a common indicator of anxiety in humans and others primates, according to a research study led by Georgia State University that shows chimpanzees can be models of human mental illness.

The longer primatologists study chimpanzees and the more their findings are compared, the longer the list of unique learned behaviors grows.

She points to the behavior of female chimpanzees, gorillas, and macaques as an indication of a past in which human females flaunted their desire.

According to the researchers who recorded the events with a video camera (see video above), this is the first time such compassionate mourning behavior has been observed outside of humans and chimpanzees, and it could indicate that mourning is more widespread among primates than previously thought.

However, the pattern matches the social behaviors of chimpanzees, she says, where the males «interact [more] in groups with differently ranked individuals, and tolerate conflict more readily than females.»

The data largely consist of «follows,» in which a researcher focuses on one chimpanzee and notes her behaviors and interactions with others throughout the day.

The vast amount of video material reveals how the diversity of chimpanzee culture is still underestimated: the chimpanzee groups exhibit a surprising variety of behavior, for example in food hunting or display, which is partly shaped by their environment.

The distribution of chimpanzee cultural behaviors in the wild may therefore be strongly affected by the identity and social characteristics of the original inventors.

The impressive geographic variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) behavior is thought to be cultural in that it results from the transmission of socially acquired habits.

This procedure was repeated with two different chimpanzee groups (Group 1 and Group 2) such that chimpanzees in both groups observed a pair of trained group members performing each of the foraging behaviors.

Data from this study are therefore relevant to the behavior of wild chimpanzees and the potential transmission of chimpanzee cultures.

These findings raise questions about the evolution of our own cultural behavior and the extent to which chimpanzee and human cultures rely on the same social and cognitive processes.

We examined the role of social dynamics in learning by giving chimpanzees opportunities to learn different foraging behaviors from either of two conspecific models with different social characteristics.

«Although the scale of the violence after the fission may be unusual, inter-community violence and killings are a ubiquitous feature of chimpanzee social behavior, so the post-fission violence is not unique,» lead author Joseph Feldblum of Duke University's department of evolutionary anthropology told Seeker.

He considers the dual character of violent and gentle which we share with chimpanzees, comparing the behavior of today's street gangs to early human behavior.

I proved during my research study that wild chimpanzees that are habituated to human observers on the ground are tolerant to, and most importantly do not alter their natural behaviors in the presence of, human observers in the canopy.»

Brett Morgen's Jane explores the life and legacy of Jane Goodall, following her determined mission to study chimpanzee behavior, despite being untrained and largely ridiculed by the male - dominated scientific community.

«Patricia McConnell understands the behavior of dogs and their owners as Jane Goodall understands chimpanzees...»

The idea that dog behavior can be explained through the application of wolf behavior models is no more relevant than suggesting that chimpanzee behavior can be used to explain the intricacies of human behavior.

«Patricia McConnell understands the behavior of dogs and their owners as Jane Goodall understands chimpanzees...» - Charles T. Snowdon, Ph.D, Former President, Animal Behaviorbehavior of dogs and their owners as Jane Goodall understands chimpanzees...» - Charles T. Snowdon, Ph.D, Former President, Animal BehaviorBehavior Society