Sentences with phrase «watching chimps»
William Hopkins and colleagues at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta determined handedness by watching chimps scoop peanut butter out of a tube.
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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.
The final bits and pieces completed, I jetted off to Uganda for 2 months (watching chimps and playing at being a «real» biologist... strongly recommended as post-thesis writing therapy!)
Not exact matches
To find out how maternal rearing shapes chimp interactions, researchers watched two populations of Chimfunshi juveniles at play: one group of orphans and one of chimps that were raised by their mothers.
Just like us watching for that knife in Psycho, the chimps and bonobos looked to the door where they'd previously seen the ape character emerge, the team reports today in Current Biology.
To continue watching, the chimps had to push back a heavy door.
Given how rarely chimps pick up trends, it's exciting that someone was on hand to watch it happen, says Andrew Whiten of the University of St Andrews.
But in fact, letting chimps watch a ghost box until they're bored to death — with its various parts moving and producing rewards hundreds of times — doesn't teach them anything.
The chimps have figured out how to use at least 13 unique tools by simply watching humans go about their business at the zoo — and they're known to select the best tool for a particular job with ease.
The scientists hid a realistic fake snake — a model of a venomous gaboon viper — in the forest and watched how the chimps reacted.
When the ratings come in the next day, though, Steve notices that every show the chimp clapped for and insisted on watching brought in the highest number of viewers.
I noted how, while watching the scenes in the film of chimps watching TV, I was reminded of my tour of a onetime New York University chimp center in Tuxedo, N.Y., where the televisions were showing «The Wizard of Oz.»
The chimps soon became interested in the camera view screen on the Chimpcam box, watching what happened as they moved the Chimpcam around filming new images.
Despite some early troubles with two males vying to be the alpha, the chimps eventually learned how to operate the touchscreen and were able to choose which videos they watched.