Sentences with phrase «studied than chimps»

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A new study has theorized that human beings are more closely related to orangutans than chimps.

23 She also notes that in her studies gorillas give clearer evidence of deception than do chimps or orangutans.

Given that the human volunteers in Kret's study were more responsive than the chimps to changes in pupil size, it might be that the whites of our eyes evolved to help us subconsciously spot those changes more readily, says Harrison.

«For the first time, there are more chimpanzees in sanctuaries than there are in labs,» says Stephen Ross, director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, and board chair of Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, the only sanctuary authorized to take government - owned chimps.

Her own, 3 - year study of 38 female chimps found that the oldest four individuals — all older than 50 — got progressively worse at a spatial memory test as they aged.

Now, a behavioral study that directly compares the two apes suggests that the bonobos» more cordial nature enables them to cooperate more successfully than chimps in some situations.

As researchers study the genome in more depth, they hope to find the genetic differences that make bonobos more playful than chimps, for example, or humans more cerebral.

For example, according to a recent survey of five long - term chimp studies, the most sociable chimps tend to be best at using tools (captive chimps, by the same token, are better with tools than wild chimps).

Members of a tiny tribe in the Amazon jungle that has no words for numbers beyond two can't conceptualize numbers any better than chimps or human infants do, a new study has found.

Based on their research from the Chorora, Kadabba and Ardi finds, the team says the common ancestor of chimps and humans lived earlier than had been evidenced by genetic and molecular studies, which placed the split about 5 million years ago.

People have evolved to sleep much less than chimps, baboons or any other primate studied so far, a new study finds.

A new study found that young dolphins actually recognize themselves earlier than young chimps... and human children.