Sentences with phrase «wild apes»

The phrase "wild apes" is used to describe apes that live in their natural habitat without being tamed or domesticated. Full definition
Their next step was to analyze 1300 fecal samples of wild apes (some turned out to be from gorillas) and identify several places in which SIVcpz was widespread in chimp communities.
The findings, says Goldberg, are a cautionary tale about human interactions with wild apes.
With only around 27 000 wild apes left in scattered patches of forest on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the orang - utan is vulnerable to extinction.
Genetic variation among great apes had been largeley uncharted, due to the difficuty in obtaining genetic specimens from wild apes.
The study is the first to identify wild apes with a taste for alcohol, although green monkeys imported to the Caribbean island of St. Kits have demonstrated a knack for knocking back cocktails left unattended by tourists there.
The cast and crew of upcoming movie musical Rock Of Ages had a scary reminder of just how dangerous wild apes can be when the primate which plays Tom...
The smarter you are — unless you have the social graces of a wild ape — the more options you have available to you.
«Wild apes are our outdoor lab for the evolution of human culture,» says Van Schaik.
To solve the mystery, Andrew Moeller turned to wild apes.
Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.
Wild apes are always responding to their environment, he says.
Low - ranking «new girl» chimpanzees seek out other gal pals with similar status, finds a new study of social relationships in the wild apes.
«We must decide how much we have to invasively treat the wild apes,» says Leendertz.
However, it is hard to pinpoint what has killed a wild ape, says Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, who runs a chimp health project in the Tai forest in Ivory Coast.
In Östlund's international breakthrough, Force Majeure, a father's duty to protect his family paled in the face of his impulse for self - preservation, and The Square draws an even more pointed contrast between high - flown ideals and baser instincts, not least via a long and uncomfortable scene where guests at a black - tie dinner party are amused and then menaced by a performance artist all - too - convincingly mimicking a wild ape.
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