Chimpanzees yawn in response to
seeing other chimps yawn, reveals a new study.
Not exact matches
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-.