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De Waal and colleagues have been testing human intuition concerning the behavior of chimps at the Arnheim Zoo since 1976.

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Now Estaban and lol, don't you boys of reason and logic go throwing around facts like chimps throw feces at the poor ignorant creationists.

Ron Paul's appearance on Meet The Press last Sunday was immensely revealing for many reasons, not the least of which was his success (in the words of The Smirking Chimp) at «parrying each of Tim Russert's attempts to find a gotcha moment with honesty and conviction — two things Russert was obviously unpracticed in dealing with.»

Ron Paul's appearance on Meet The Press last Sunday was immensely revealing for many reasons, not the least of which was his success (in the words of The Smirking Chimp) at «parrying each of Tim Russert's attempts to find a gotcha moment with honesty and conviction — two...

To find out how maternal rearing shapes chimp interactions, researchers watched two populations of Chimfunshi juveniles at play: one group of orphans and one of chimps that were raised by their mothers.

But people shouldn't be so quick to draw a bright line between chimps and kids, says Frans de Waal, a primate behavior expert at Emory University in Atlanta and author of the book The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates.

If you know them at all, it is probably as the most highly sexed of all the apes, but they are also considered by many to be our closest living relative — closer even than the common chimp.

Primatologist William McGrew at the University of Cambridge is wary of granting chimps a «conceptualisation of fire», but further work could yield interesting results, he says.

Pruetz and co-author Thomas LaDuke at the East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania suggest that the chimps were cognisant enough to predict the fire's movement, retreating short distances at a time while staying calm (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1002 / ajpa.21245).

Sarah Brosnan, a primate behaviourist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and her colleagues trained captive chimps to exchange tokens for a food reward, then tested how same - sex pairs of chimps reacted to various levels of reward.

Anthropologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University in Ames recounts that the male faced the fire with «a really exaggerated slow - motion display» before redirecting his display at chimps sheltering in a nearby baobab tree.

To investigate, Mariska Kret at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and her colleagues studied pupil mimicry in humans and, for the first time, looked for the phenomenon in chimps too.

In previous experiments, other groups of chimps showed no sensitivity towards unfairness directed at others.

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.

Sarah Brosnan, a primate behaviourist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and her colleagues trained captive chimps to exchange tokens for a food reward, then tested how same - sex pairs of...

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, primatologist Frans de Waal and his colleagues at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University presented chimps with a simplified version of the choice that Darwin faced.

I touched the chimps at the beginning — probably a mistake, but on the other hand, after a year of them running away, it was kind of just so magical that I would do it again.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

DNA analysis showed that at least 12 chimps had slept on the ground, suggesting it is a widespread behaviour (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1002 / ajpa.22056).

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

In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, «approaching us in the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to do.

Five years later, Leendertz and his team at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin showed that what killed the chimps was an unusual form of anthrax.

But the notes are so detailed that Feldblum could get a better idea of each chimp's social ties, for instance, by considering if the chimps arrived at the same time and from the same direction.

The team played videos of chimps either yawning or exhibiting other open - mouth behaviours such as grinning to six adult chimps and three infants at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan.

But in a separate study, geneticist David Page of the Whitehead Institute at MIT and his colleagues found that the chimp Y, the male sex chromosome, contains debilitating mutations in a number of genes.

Recent research demonstrates that the bonds of kinship will not keep a chimp from piling up stones and hurling them at zoo visitors if they get too close.

Chimps don't teach their young to be nice the way humans do, but in 2007 scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found that chimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rChimps don't teach their young to be nice the way humans do, but in 2007 scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found that chimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rchimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rchimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a reward.

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.

«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.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

At 9 a.m., the animals arrived at Project Chimps, where they made their way into one of the sanctuary's «villas» — a four - level enclosure with ladders, swings, and hammockAt 9 a.m., the animals arrived at Project Chimps, where they made their way into one of the sanctuary's «villas» — a four - level enclosure with ladders, swings, and hammockat Project Chimps, where they made their way into one of the sanctuary's «villas» — a four - level enclosure with ladders, swings, and hammocks.

Hercules and Leo were born in 2006 at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana, home to the world's largest collection of privately owned lab chimps.

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.

Yet many of these traits can also be found, at least to some degree, in other creatures: Chimps have rudimentary culture, parrots speak, and some rats seem to giggle when tickled.

Yeah, what's actually sort of gratifying when you look at some of the differences that seemed to be showing up is that that a lot of these most significant tiny differences in the genomes between the humans and the chimps aren't exactly where you would think they would be in terms of their effects.

► «New York Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe ruled that two research chimps at Stony Brook University are not covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention,» David Grimm wrote on Thursday at ScienceInsider.

Hercules and Leo arrived this morning at Project Chimps, a 95 - hectare sanctuary in the wooded hills of Morgantown, Georgia.

This suggests that the chimps frequently felt compelled to reward Tai for her perceived unselfishness, even at their own expense, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«For the first time, there are more chimpanzees in sanctuaries than there are in labs,» says Stephen Ross, director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, and board chair of Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, the only sanctuary authorized to take government - owned chimps.

Now, in a pair of studies, researchers show that chimpanzees will give up a treat in order to help out an unrelated chimp, and that chimps in the wild go out on risky patrols in order to protect even nonkin at home.

Soon after that discovery, a team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, discovered that just two bases, the letters that make up DNA, distinguished the human and chimp versions of FOXP2.

The more technical parts of Provine's work — exploring the neuromuscular control of laughter and its relationship to the human and chimp respiratory systems — draw on his training at Washington University in St. Louis under Viktor Hamburger and Nobel laureate Rita Levi - Montalcini.

William Hopkins and colleagues at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta determined handedness by watching chimps scoop peanut butter out of a tube.

She and colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan showed six chimps aged 8 to 32 a small black or white box, and then trained them to to select a square of the same colour on a screen to receive a fruit reward.

Edward Hubbard, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who has studied the neural basis of synaesthesia, doubts that chimps experience the same range of synaesthesetic experiences as humans.

Indeed, two of the chimps NhRP has been trying to free are lab animals at Stony Brook University.

Prosin says that as far as she knows both chimps still reside in a lab at Stony Brook, where they are the subjects of experiments to understand the evolution of human bipedalism.

Her own, 3 - year study of 38 female chimps found that the oldest four individuals — all older than 50 — got progressively worse at a spatial memory test as they aged.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.