Sentences with phrase «seeing other chimps»

Chimpanzees yawn in response to seeing other chimps yawn, reveals a new study.

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Story number 2: Contagious yawning, where you yawn because you see your friend yawn can only occur in humans and other primates such as chimps.
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.
«It was striking that this behaviour was seen in some adult females, but never after they became mothers,» says Kahlenberg, adding that the chimps learned the behaviour by copying other juveniles.
Still, says Wise — whose organization is currently considering launching personhood lawsuits for chimps, elephants, and orcas in other states — «I'm very happy to see them leaving a research facility.
At the centre we see capuchins, chimps and other primates sport headphones and carry boom microphones and clapperboards.
Morgan and Sanz documented more than 20 «cultural variations,» or behaviors not seen in other chimp populations.
I'd love to see what other hypothetical ancestors look like — last common ancestor of chimps and humans, anyone?
For a start, the degree to which we know stuff and know what others know is quite possibly what separates humans from everything else on the planet, from rocks to chimpanzees (see «Knowledge: Of chimps, curiosity and quantum mechanics «-RRB-.
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