Sentences with phrase «when chimp»

Guided tours take place three times a day, every day of the year (weather permitting), when the chimp tour guide talks about chimpanzees, the sanctuary, and introduces the individual chimps and their stories - from the safety of the viewing points.

When chimp handler, Robert Franklin (Tyler Labine) refuses to give the newborn a lethal injection, the young scientist sneaks the chimpanzee out of the building.

Primatologist Catherine Crockford will never forget the day when a chimp, in his own primate way, asked her to move.

When the chimp and human genomes are compared, some of the clearest cases of nucleotide differences are found in genes coding for transcription factors.

When chimps possessing items of medium - high value, such as carrots, were offered high - value items, like grapes, they kept the lesser food.

And when the chimps did cooperate, they almost always adopted a winner - take - all mentality, with one animal hogging the entire bounty, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.

I would take issue with Douglas Fox's suggestion that when chimps exhibit hostile behaviour to thunderstorms they may be confronting...

The hybrid of familiar face and tiny brain means Toumaï probably lived just after the time when chimps and hominids were going their separate ways.

I would take issue with Douglas Fox's suggestion that when chimps exhibit hostile behaviour to thunderstorms they may be confronting a «hairy - knuckled Zeus» (27 November 2010, p 32).

But how can they counteract a script by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver that gets silly, especially when the chimps indulge in halting English: «Ape no kill ape»?

Not exact matches

It was only when forced to assume an upright stance that a lateral preference emerged — although individual chimps in the study were equally likely to be left - handed as right - handed.

Science now knows that we evolved from chimps, there is a fossil record showing when we began walking upright (Lucy).

When the mirror was introduced, the chimps attempted to touch the marked areas with the aid of the reflected image.

A CHIMP when you round up.

And of course Goodall saw the same thing when she lived with the chimps.

Just as girls might play house, chimps begin making sleep nests like their mothers when they're around six months old.

A recent study from the England's University of Portsmouth showed that young orangutans and chimps open their mouths and breathe faster when they're tickled, just like human babies, indicating it's a universal response to pleasure.

In it, Sifry recalled a seminal moment early in Howard Dean «s presidential run when a staffer posted an «Ask the Dean Campaign» thread on the anti-Bush website Smirking Chimp.

We know that at some point we shared a common ancestor with chimps, but exactly when — and what that ancestor was like — have been maddeningly hard to pin down.

New estimates for when our lineage and chimps went their separate ways suggest that some of our established ideas are staggeringly wrong.

As expected, chimps were more likely to reject a boring carrot when their partner got a yummy grape for the same token.

Interestingly, the same applied to the chimpanzees: their pupils, too, dilated more slowly when they viewed a chimp with constricting pupils.

Then there's the excited dance chimps perform when faced with a waterfall — it looks distinctly awe - inspired.

CHIMPS recognise unfairness, even when it involves individuals other than themselves.

Chimps tend not to display this behavior, Haidt says, but «when early humans began to share intentions, their ability to hunt, gather, raise children, and raid their neighbors increased exponentially.

This is how chimps first acted when Gallup placed a full - length mirror next to their cages.

Chimpanzees do this too — when looking at other chimps» butts.

YOU probably aren't much smarter than a chimp when it comes to cooperative games — you just know the rules.

CUNY graduate student Elaine Kozma filmed chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, and other primates in zoos so she could measure the precise angles of their legs and hips when they walked upright.

You know when you see chimps in the movies or on television they are these cute animals because...

When Gallup's chimps woke up and were given a mirror, they peered into the mirror while touching the red dot, indicating that they noticed the change in their appearance.

Chimps should be used only in studies of major diseases and only when there is no other option.

The discovery makes marmosets rather unique, the researchers say, noting that chimps and other great apes «not only don't take turns when they vocalize, they don't seem to vocalize much at all, period!»

For example, MCPH1 and ASPM cause microcephaly when mutated, FOXP2 causes speech defects, and all three show signs of selection pressure during human, but not chimp, evolution.

Yet many of these traits can also be found, at least to some degree, in other creatures: Chimps have rudimentary culture, parrots speak, and some rats seem to giggle when tickled.

Yeah, what's actually sort of gratifying when you look at some of the differences that seemed to be showing up is that that a lot of these most significant tiny differences in the genomes between the humans and the chimps aren't exactly where you would think they would be in terms of their effects.

When all the chimps were in, Leo tried again, and this time Hercules came.

When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.

Chimps and humans were better at identifying white squares when they heard a high - pitched sound, and dark squares when played a low - pitched sound.

Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia offer a glimpse of the time when humans and chimps were first going their separate evolutionary ways — and may represent the earliest known human ancestor.

When the primatologist Jane Goodall observed chimps in the 1960s, one of her subjects was a male she called McGregor, who suffered from polio.

She and her colleagues uncovered this liaison when they examined the complete genomes of 75 chimps and bonobos from 10 African countries.

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans help humans when they look for objects in the wrong place - showing they can tell when others believe something that's false

But when the figures flashed for just four tenths or two tenths of a second, the chimp trumped all, still hitting about 80 percent of the time, whereas his human challengers» success rate plummeted to 40 percent.

Both chimps and bonobos teamed up with their cagemate to pull the ropes when the fruit was cut up into easily sharable pieces, the researchers found.

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

The different natures of the two apes became clear when the researchers, led by Brian Hare, a biological anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presented pairs of bonobos and pairs of chimps with plates of fruit.

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.

Moreover, with all the great ape genomes to compare, researchers are better able to assess when gorillas, chimps, and humans evolved — a matter of current debate.