Sentences with phrase «on chimpanzees at»

I am struck by parallels with the case of biomedical research on chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health, which in 2011 was deemed «unnecessary» by an independent Institute of Medicine review.

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In support of the idea, Braccini and her colleagues» looked at handedness in chimpanzees, and found that when the apes stand on all fours, they displayed no real hand preferences.

Bipedal on the ground but efficient at moving through trees, Ardi suggests the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees was an ape with monkeylike traits.

The group claimed that four New York chimpanzees — Hercules and Leo at Stony Brook, and two others on private property — were too cognitively and emotionally complex to be held in captivity and should be relocated to an established chimpanzee sanctuary.

The team repeatedly flashed either black or white squares for 200 milliseconds at a time on screens in front of six chimpanzees and 33 humans.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

He eventually found refuge on Black Beauty Ranch in Texas, where he died, at an early age for a chimpanzee, in 2000.

The move follows NIH's decision to end controversial monkey experiments at one of its labs and the termination of its support for invasive research on chimpanzees.

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.

Their argument rests on examples in which one chimp learns from another, and on the seemingly arbitrary differences in habits between chimpanzee groups at different sites.

«We do not have at the present time an analysis to tell us what would be an appropriate size of the population of chimpanzees that would need to be kept on hand should the need arise from some sort of new pandemic for their use,» said Collins.

In the 1990s, for example, zookeepers in Sweden spied on a chimpanzee that kept flinging rocks at human visitors.

► «[NIH] is effectively ending its support for invasive research on chimpanzees,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote at ScienceInsider later that day.

Robert Lanford, the current director of SNPRC, says no research is currently being done on the center's 129 chimpanzees, and that his organization is not applying for any permits at this time.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

«It possibly puts a finger on natural selection in the act,» says Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego, who has done both genetic analyses of chimpanzees and behavioral studies of wild communities.

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

At 30 to 36 months, chimpanzee infants start moving around more on their own without being carried and spend most of their time out of mother's reach.

«When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution,» said study author Yoav Gilad, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, «followed by rapid change, along the five million years of the human lineage, that was concentrated on these specific groups of genes.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

On August 2, 1976, chimpanzee Dar was born at Albany Medical College on Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New MexicOn August 2, 1976, chimpanzee Dar was born at Albany Medical College on Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexicon Holloman Air Force Base in Alamagordo, New Mexico.

He's currently working on MHRP Ebola vaccine study RV429, a Phase II chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 Ebola vaccine study being conducted at MHRP's Nigeria site.

After a six - year study of the chimpanzee colony at the Arnhem Zoo, he moved to the U.S. in 1981 to work on other primate species, including bonobos.

I am wondering what your commentary is on the diet of wild adult chimpanzees vs. the nutrient make - up of chimp milk for thier babies... I would thinking looking at the great apes and studying what adults eat in the wild vs. the nutrient makeup of the breast milk would give us an indicator of what we humans should be eating as adult in comparison to our own breast milk make - up.

Project Nim (Unrated) Primate whisperer documentary about a chimpanzee separated from its mother at birth and raised in captivity inside a brownstone located on Manhattan's fashionable Upper West Side as a study in animal behavior.

The first set to open is the One & Only Nyungwe House, a 22 - room property on a working tea plantation at the end of the ancient Nyungwe Forest National Park, which is famous for its chimpanzees.

Discussions and performances would kick off on a stage or elsewhere indoors or in the garden at various parts of the day: I witnessed a chimpanzee sanguinely passing up six toy cubes bearing letters in favour of bananas (Elmgreen & Dragset's Spelling U-T-O-P-I-A, 2003).

Lord Mansfield says at one point in his decision «Compassion will not, on the one hand, nor inconvenience on the other, be to decide; but the law...» But, of course, compassion is the motivating force for the application and would, I should think, be the generator of any decision favourable to the NRP and the chimpanzees.