Sentences with phrase «than chimps did»

But when the food was cut into big chunks, bonobos cooperated to haul in the fruit more often than chimps did.

Bird acknowledges that many animals probably understand the basic idea of support, but he points out that the rooks seem to comprehend its nuances better than chimps do.

The list of probable cultural traits is not as long as that for chimpanzees, but orangutans» tendency to interact with their neighbors less than chimps do made the pattern of learning even clearer.

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This is a free country by the way and I don't feel any freer than a chimp in an a half acre cage with banana trees you have to pay to climb.

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

«I don't think you have to be smarter than Bonzo the chimp to figure out what's going on,» City Councilmember Peter Vallone, who voted against the bill, said before the meeting.

Because the spinal cord entered the skull at the bottom rather than at the back, as it does for chimps, Dart believed the individual had walked upright — until then, considered an exclusively human trait.

This kind of prosocial behavior, a form of altruism that seeks to benefit others and promote cooperation, has now been found in chimps, the species that Darwin did more than any other human to connect us with.

Researchers did not observe the first deadly chimpanzee raid until 1974, more than a decade after Jane Goodall started watching chimps at the Gombe reserve.

In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, «approaching us in the trees to get a better look,» Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions tend to do.

Although chimps» bodies are lean compared with those of humans, new measurements show that these apes burn calories more slowly than we do.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

Because human T cells don't have as many of these brakes, our cells are a hundred times more aggressive than those of chimps when faced with drugs like TGN1412, which work by triggering the immune system.

Less than a month after a New York state appeals court ruled that chimpanzees do not have legal rights and can not be released from captivity, a case involving a second chimp has been dismissed

For example, chimps have a great many more genes related to olfaction than we do; they've got a better sense of smell because we've lost many of those genes.

The 2 percent distinction also involves an unusually large fraction of genes related to the immune system, parasite vulnerability, and infectious diseases: Chimps are resistant to malaria, and we aren't; we handle tuberculosis better than they do.

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.

The team also counted the differences between Denisovans and chimps, and found that they have fewer differences than do modern people and chimps.

They found that the chimpanzee Y chromosome has lost lots of genes that are present in humans, which suggests the human Y resembles that of the common ancestor more than does the chimp's Y. Chimpanzees only have two - thirds of the genes present in the human MSY.

Interestingly, they also found that the better throwing chimps didn't appear to posses any more physical prowess than other chimps, which the researchers suggest means that throwing didn't develop as a means of hunting, but as a form of communication within groups, i.e. throwing stuff at someone else became a form of self expression, which is clearly evident to anyone who has ever been targeted by a chimp locked up in a zoo.