Sentences with phrase «study chimpanzee»

Brett Morgen's Jane explores the life and legacy of Jane Goodall, following her determined mission to study chimpanzee behavior, despite being untrained and largely ridiculed by the male - dominated scientific community.

To further explore the mitochondrial hypothesis of aging, we propose to study the chimpanzee, our closest relative.

Jane Goodall, a bona fide interesting person, left her home in England and moved to Tanzania at age 26 to begin studying chimpanzees.

In 2001, while studying chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Ivory Coast as a Ph.D. student, Fabian Leendertz watched an alpha male named Leo vomit, climb up on a low branch, then topple over and die.

Thirty - five years ago, researchers studying chimpanzees in the wild noticed that neighboring communities had distinct grooming behaviors that could not be explained by differences in their environments.

The one research team that has studied chimpanzee enclosure size in zoos concluded that once the animals have at least 12.2 square meters per individual, the benefits of more space taper off, NIH says in a notice today.

The longer primatologists study chimpanzees and the more their findings are compared, the longer the list of unique learned behaviors grows.

He has studied chimpanzees in Gombe (with Jane Goodall) and Kibale, vervet monkeys and gelada baboons.

Without any training or suitable qualification, a 26 - year - old English rose by the name of Jane Goodall was sent to deepest, darkest Tanzania in 1957 to study chimpanzees, a species about which little was known.

Other finalists include Eliot Schrefer's «Threatened,» a tale about young man studying chimpanzees, Steve Sheinkin's «The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights,» Deborah Wilies for «Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two,» and John Corey Whaley for «Noggin.»

This year's Earth Day Doodle comes with a special «message to the citizens of the world» from Jane Goodall, whose work studying chimpanzees has...

I have always thought of Dr. Goodall in terms of her work studying chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

Not exact matches

For the study, biologists followed a group of wild chimpanzees for two years, charting their social ties and periodically testing their urine for chemicals that indicate stress.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

5 In his field study of chimpanzees, Menzel states that to equate communicative ability to gestural or vocal responses is anthropocentric.

The success of Jane Goodall's (1971) scientific study of chimpanzees in the wild was dependent upon the rapport she established with her subjects and evidently also the rapport they had with her.

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

Through a series of studies, Dr. Rozin found that it is practically impossible to induce a preference for chile peppers in rats, and subsequent experiments with dogs and chimpanzees have had limited success.

By studying different local environmental conditions, we may better understand why some men act like fatherly wolves and others act more like aloof chimpanzees.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

Psychologists who analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species.

In a study published on Nov. 16, scientists discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the environment, than chimpanzee brains and that this may have accounted for part of human evolution.

The study found that human and chimpanzee brain size were both greatly influenced by genetics.

The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious and a new study suggests that human muscle may be just as unique.

Studies have shown that women respond to all types of sexual depictions — not only heterosexual and homosexual images but even those of chimpanzees having sex.)

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

In the new study, researchers mined databases of genomic data from humans and chimpanzees, to find enhancers expressed primarily in the brain tissue and early in development.

«Chimpanzees are ideal for this study because to collect this observational behavioral data, you don't need to collar them or use any invasive methods.

And it may be unique to humans: Other studies have failed to spot overimitation among chimpanzees and orangutans.

Studies of chimpanzees, monkeys, newborn chicks, salamanders and even honeybees point to two parallel systems for representing quantities.

«Second case of «Down syndrome» in chimps: Chimpanzee study can help to enhance our understanding of Down syndrome (trisomy 21) in humans.»

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

Olson, like Ondzie, works for WCS, where she studies how Ebola affects chimpanzees and gorillas.

Compelling evidence that altruism is a genetic trait comes from studying our close relative, the chimpanzee.

A new study of chimpanzees and bonobos finds that humans aren't the only species susceptible to «glass half empty thinking.

EASY RIDER Gut bacteria have been passed down from the ancestors of humans and African apes for millennia, evolving alongside their hosts, says a new study that looked at bacteria from gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

Even with their tiny bird brains, rooks comprehend basic principles of physics at the same level as a 6 - month - old baby — and beyond that of chimpanzees — a new study reports.

A Duke University study has found that positive and negative framing make a big difference for chimpanzees and bonobos too.

However, their behaviour is a clear sign that six - year - old children as well as chimpanzees are eager to observe how uncooperative members of their community are punished,» adds Nikolaus Steinbeis, the other first author of the study and scientist at both MPI CBS and University College London.

He studied wild chimpanzee in the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire, and he has done laboratory research with biological samples obtained from both wild and captive chimpanzees.

Unless he can drum up private funding to support a colony of chimpanzees for conservation studies, Walsh says, «We are screwed.

Study provides first evidence that chimpanzees pass along newly learned behaviors and customs to other communities

Psychologist William Hopkins studies neurological correlates of various aspects of cognition in chimpanzees.

His has done behavioral and cognitive studies of both chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries.

«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.

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.

A pair of studies suggests the evolutionary roots of humanlike cooperation can be seen in chimpanzees, albeit in rudimentary forms.

DNA studies suggest ancient chimpanzees and bonobos interbred, as did Homo sapiens and Neandertals (SN: 10/15/16, p. 22).

The study adds to a growing list of animals, including dogs, chimpanzees, and monkeys, that are sensitive to what others can see and hear, notes Juliane Brauer, a comparative psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

«We don't know what the time period was between the two divergences, but we do know that half of the genes studied suggest that chimpanzees appear to be closer to humans, while the other half contradict this or are ambiguous.»