Research by Dr Nicholas Newton - Fisher from the University of Kent has found chimpanzees modify their interactions
with other chimpanzees if higher ranking members of their community are nearby.
Before McGregor got sick, he enjoyed hours of grooming
from other chimpanzees, who picked out fleas, mites, and other parasites from his fur.
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.
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«At NIRC they will receive veterinary care, enrichment, exercise, and gradually be introduced to social housing
with other chimpanzees... [They] will not be used for any research.»
But they don't step in and inflict similar punishment when they see a food theft between two
other chimpanzees.
But Goodall watched in amazement as
the other chimpanzees stayed away from him once he became ill.
«What's so important here is that nearly
all other chimpanzee study sites have been disturbed in a major way, mucked about by humans,» says anthropologist Robert Sussman, Sanz's doctoral supervisor.
He wants Tommy — and eventually
the other chimpanzees — moved to a sanctuary in Florida.
«Such a mosaic anatomical evolution may well be related to the somewhat similar molecular mosaic evolution between the three species revealed by previous genetic studies: each of the chimpanzees species share about 3 percent of genetic traits with humans that are not present in
the other chimpanzee species.»
Boy moms were found to spend about two hours more per day with
other chimpanzees than the girl moms did.
You have to kill
the other chimpanzees in the group.»