Sentences with phrase «wild chimpanzees at»

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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.

Hauser himself, a professor of psychology, human evolutionary biology, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and codirector of the school's Mind / Brain / Behavior Initiative, has analyzed the antics of tamarins, vervet monkeys, macaques, and starlings in captivity, as well as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees in the wild.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

«It possibly puts a finger on natural selection in the act,» says Pascal Gagneux, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego, who has done both genetic analyses of chimpanzees and behavioral studies of wild communities.

Little is known about chimpanzee birth in the wild because only five births have ever been observed, says Hitonaru Nishie at Kyoto University in Japan.

The study, which appeared online Oct. 14 in the journal Scientific Reports, provides the first detailed look at how social status among wild chimpanzees changes throughout their lifetimes.

Away from the coastlines, there is evidence that non-human primates can hunt prey at unsustainable levels, for example wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Ngogo in Uganda hunt red colobus monkeys (Procolobus rufomitratus) at a rate that may lead to local extinction of the latter (Teelen, 2008).

The research presented in this video aims at understanding the cultures of wild chimpanzee populations in several African countries and how they differ from each other.

I am wondering what your commentary is on the diet of wild adult chimpanzees vs. the nutrient make - up of chimp milk for thier babies... I would thinking looking at the great apes and studying what adults eat in the wild vs. the nutrient makeup of the breast milk would give us an indicator of what we humans should be eating as adult in comparison to our own breast milk make - up.

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