Sentences with phrase «of wild chimpanzees»

That's why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park, were surprised and dismayed to discover that a human «common cold» virus known as rhinovirus C was killing healthy chimps.

Rushmore observed a community of wild chimpanzees in Kibale National Park in Uganda, recording the interactions of individuals and family groups over a nine - month period to determine which individuals — and which types of individuals — were most central.

The postdoc, Emily Wroblewski, had joined Parham's microbiology and immunology group at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, after doing behavioral studies of wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

The finding was bad enough: During the last two decades, the population of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in the West African nations of Gabon and the Republic of the Congo has declined by more than half.

In 1960, Adriaan Kortlandt became the first animal behaviourist to gaze into the eyes of wild chimpanzees.

But in contrast to the behaviors of wild chimpanzees, whales and elephants, among other species, the natural ways of horses have rarely garnered scientific interest.

For the study, biologists followed a group of wild chimpanzees for two years, charting their social ties and periodically testing their urine for chemicals that indicate stress.

Rushmore, who completed her doctorate in the Odum School of Ecology in May, analyzed the social networks of wild chimpanzees to determine which individuals were most likely to contract and spread pathogens.

Howard Ochman of the University of Austin in Texas and his team sequenced the gut microbiomes of hundreds of wild chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, and those of hundreds of humans living in US cities and in Venezuela and Malawi.

A RARE sighting of a wild chimpanzee birth came to a grisly conclusion.

Boesch is also the founder and president of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation which aims at saving and preserving the remaining wild chimpanzees and their habitat.

The research presented in this video aims at understanding the cultures of wild chimpanzee populations in several African countries and how they differ from each other.

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Scientists investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda were surprised and dismayed to discover that rhinovirus C was killing healthy chimps.

Studies of wild chimpanzees have found that individuals have distinct preference for one hand than the other when using told.

By GAIL VINES In 1960, Adriaan Kortlandt became the first animal behaviourist to gaze into the eyes of wild chimpanzees.

Before that 1975 revelation, few researchers had observed different communities of wild chimpanzees, and no one had even recognized that these behavioral differences existed.

«The finding that in immature chimpanzees, like humans, object - oriented play is biased towards males may reflect a shared evolutionary history for this trait dating back to our last common ancestor,» write the researchers from Cambridge, Zurich and Kyoto, who studied communities of wild chimpanzees and bonobos in Uganda and Congo for several months, cataloguing not just all tool use, but all object manipulation.

Koops, in collaboration with colleagues from Kyoto University, conducted painstaking research tracking communities of wild chimpanzees and bonobos in Uganda and Congo for months, cataloguing not just all tool use, but also all potential for tool use in terms of the different environments and social time spent.