Peter Walsh, a researcher at the same institute who was helping a student with a study on the social development
of young chimps, wondered if something akin to daycare outbreaks was at work in the forest.
The photographers took pictures of the inside
of the young chimps» mouths when they vocalized, yawned or gaped.
Back in his lab, Provine shows me video footage of a pair
of young chimps named Josh and Lizzie playing with a human caretaker.
Two
of the youngest chimps, Jacob and Oscar, both 7 years old, entered fairly quickly, says Leslie Wade, Project Chimps's manager of communications.
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.
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 r
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 r
chimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar
chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a r
chimps open a cage full
of food, without expecting a reward.
The patterns
of collective violence in which
young chimp males engage are remarkably similar to those
of young human males.
In her article on the mental lives
of animals, Emma
Young wrote, «
Chimps... just don't get abstract physical concepts, like...
He noted that the
young chimps» memory ability could be likened to «eidetic imagery» (photographic memory), a special ability to retain a detailed and accurate image
of a complex scene or pattern found in some human children, but which, alas, fades with age.
Matsuzawa told the Associated Press that he thinks the
chimps had the edge, because they were
younger and, also, human ancestors lost much
of this skill over time to free brain space for language ability.
When
chimp handler, Robert Franklin (Tyler Labine) refuses to give the newborn a lethal injection, the
young scientist sneaks the chimpanzee out
of the building.
Noticing that his mother has passed the effects
of the drug genetically to
young Caesar, Will is shocked to see just how extensive the side effects are, resulting in Caesar developing a mind far beyond any ape, as well as typically human traits such as empathy and compassion, leading to a bond between the
chimp and Will's Alzheimer's - afflicted father Charles (John Lithgow).