Sentences with phrase «of other chimps»

While 110 of the NIH chimps have already arrived at the Sanctuary, the fate of the other chimps is still up in the air.

According to the social theory of intelligence articulated by N. K. Humphrey and Jane Goodall, complex brains blossom in complex social settings; chimps and dolphins have to be smart to read the intentions of other chimps and dolphins.

Not exact matches

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

But the chimps» awareness of the mistreatment of others as well as themselves also lays the groundwork for complex social interactions more like those of human groups, they note.

Some chimps use rocks to crack nuts, others fish for termites with blades of grass and a gorilla has been seen gauging the depth of water with the equivalent of a dipstick, but no animal wields tools with quite the alacrity of the New Caledonian crow.

Humans and chimps both involuntarily mimic pupil dilation in others — but only if those others are members of the same species

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

Because the skull bore the distinctive sagittal crest of gorillas but otherwise had chimp - like dimensions, some primatologists suggested it represented a new subspecies of gorilla, while others believed it to be a chimp - gorilla hybrid.

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.

This kind of prosocial behavior, a form of altruism that seeks to benefit others and promote cooperation, has now been found in chimps, the species that Darwin did more than any other human to connect us with.

The human (and all the other) genome projects were predicated on the reasonable assumption that spelling out the full sequence of genes would reveal the source of that diversity of form and attributes that so readily distinguish worm from fly, mouse, chimp and human.

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.

He believes that it adds to evidence supporting the notion that chimps are capable of understanding the minds of others.

The discovery bolsters the idea that chimps are able to understand their own and others» state of mind.

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.

CUNY graduate student Elaine Kozma filmed chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, and other primates in zoos so she could measure the precise angles of their legs and hips when they walked upright.

Alda: I was sitting with Brian Hare, primatologist, and we were sitting on a bench and we were right next to a big glass window on the other side of which was this natural setting where all these chimps were.

Testing on chimps has been a huge boon for humans in the past, contributing to the discovery of hepatitis C and vaccines against polio and hepatitis B, among other advances.

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.

Chimps should be used only in studies of major diseases and only when there is no other option.

Such manipulation of new materials is beyond even chimps and other nonhuman primates.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

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.

By cloning the virus and producing it in the laboratory, Ertl and her colleagues say they circumvent the danger of transmitting other chimp viruses along with the adenovirus.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to make a decision imminently on how many of its 360 research chimps should be retired on the grounds that most studies can be done in other animals.

This is unheard of in any other animals, including chimps, say the researchers.

But other features — tiny chimp - like heels and shrugged shoulders — suggest it was too primitive to be part of the human family tree.

The chimps» actions, she would later report, set them apart from other nonhuman animals — and they may reveal the evolutionary origins of how we came to master fire.

Because bonobos are more tolerant of each other and more willing to share, they're able to cooperate more effectively than chimps in some situations, the researchers conclude.

Chimps, on the other hand, generally avoided their partner and shared food less than half of the time.

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.

And the variation in skull size and facial shape is no greater than in other species, including both modern humans or chimps, says Ponce de León — especially when the growth of the jaw and face over a lifetime are considered.

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.

Some groups of chimps use twigs to fish for termites, others don't.

In the case of Pansy, Anderson and his colleagues conclude that the other chimps reacted to her death in humanlike ways, experiencing grief and mourning.

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.

I'd love to see what other hypothetical ancestors look like — last common ancestor of chimps and humans, anyone?

The genomes of chimps and humans reveal a history of other kinds of differences as well.

Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.

But others, such as famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine, argue that P. reichenowi jumped the species barrier from chimps to humans quite recently and then became P. falciparum.

Remember that when you and the chimp are eyeball to eyeball, trying to make sense of why the other seems vaguely familiar.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.

However, this latest research focused on a group with a more defined social hierarchy, so it was the rank of the nearby chimps that was of more concern to those grooming, rather than the number of others nearby.

Taken together the findings challenge the «relationship model» theory that, like other primates, chimps engage in grooming on the basis of prior social interactions.

This echoes prior research by Dr Newton - Fisher which found that if a larger number of other chimpanzees are nearby then, regardless of rank, the grooming chimp would usually stop grooming sooner than if there were no other chimps nearby, or a small number.

For example, each chimp should have at least 1000 square feet of outdoor space and live with no fewer than six other animals.

A Dutch TV crew had set out to make a public relations documentary of the troop — part of several groundbreaking studies since it formed in 1971 — and tried to use a drone to capture close - ups and overhead shots of Tushi and the other chimps.

Clayton suspects that other species may be able match the cooperative abilities of chimps, elephants and rooks — especially social carnivores that hunt in packs.

If you consider all the biochemistry and the kinds of structures humans and chimps have in common, then to suggest anything other...