And although some scientists are eager to begin new
studies on chimps, but many wonder whether such research on these now - endangered animals will receive moral, or monetary, support.
Observational or behavioral
studies on chimps that occur in zoos or sanctuaries are considered noninvasive and will proceed.
We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral
studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.
Not exact matches
18 Other
studies indicate that
chimps but not rhesus monkeys are able to recognize themselves
on television (CSPS 211).
«The tamarin work didn't pan out, but there are now several
studies that show evidence of theory of mind in primates, including work by Brian Hare, Josep Call, Mike Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Laurie Santos, Justin Wood, and myself
on chimps, rhesus monkeys and tamarins.
The second
study, also published today in PNAS, looked at what motivates male
chimps to risk life and limb
on patrol missions.
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.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to make a decision imminently
on how many of its 360 research
chimps should be retired
on the grounds that most
studies can be done in other animals.
But either way, the work suggests that
chimps could help scientists better understand the disease and how to fight it — if they could get permission to do such
studies on these now - endangered animals.
Lacreuse worries that because «there are so many limitations
on chimp research... it will only become more and more difficult to do these kinds of
studies.»
During fieldwork in Uganda, she noticed that she could identify different
chimps in the troop she
studied based
on their distinctive drumming styles.
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.
Peter Walsh, a researcher at the same institute who was helping a student with a
study on the social development of young
chimps, wondered if something akin to daycare outbreaks was at work in the forest.
The
chimps are basically imposing a «natural tax»
on farmers growing crops near the nutrient - rich soils of the forest,» said Shane McGuinness, lead author
on the research and PhD student in Geography at Trinity, who conducted the interview - based
study with the help of the Great Apes Trust and local conservation workers.
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.
There have been
studies written
on trauma in elephants, trauma in
chimps, trauma in veterans.
That film has now been edited and will be airing
on the BBC this week — the trailer's after the jump.While it seems more like a premise for a bad reality TV show that a scientific
study, it turns out it's precisely that — primatologists outfitted the
chimps with cameras as part of their research into how chimpanzees perceive the world and one another, according to the BBC.