Sentences with phrase «young chimp»

Growing up was not easy for this young chimp but he learned to adapt.

The patterns of collective violence in which young chimp males engage are remarkably similar to those of young human males.

Young chimps just make the transition with mother chimp jumping in to intervene if the males were too rough with the initiates, but in humans rituals were created to make a stark delineation between men and children.

The researchers taught 11 young chimps to scoop out honey from inside a box by dipping a stick into a hole in the box.

Two of the youngest chimps, Jacob and Oscar, both 7 years old, entered fairly quickly, says Leslie Wade, Project Chimps's manager of communications.

Back in his lab, Provine shows me video footage of a pair of young chimps named Josh and Lizzie playing with a human caretaker.

In one case, two young chimps lingered in the outdoor enclosure one evening and delayed dinner for everyone else.

He noted that the young chimps» memory ability could be likened to «eidetic imagery» (photographic memory), a special ability to retain a detailed and accurate image of a complex scene or pattern found in some human children, but which, alas, fades with age.

Japanese researchers pit young chimps against human adults in short - term memory tests — and, lo and behold, monkey, um, ape beat man.

In fact, the young chimps also outperformed older chimps in the study.

The photographers took pictures of the inside of the young chimps» mouths when they vocalized, yawned or gaped.

They also found that those first molars generally appeared nearly a year before the young chimps stopped nursing.

One day, a few young chimps dallied outside for hours, leaving the rest to go hungry.

Peter Walsh, a researcher at the same institute who was helping a student with a study on the social development of young chimps, wondered if something akin to daycare outbreaks was at work in the forest.

A new study found that young dolphins actually recognize themselves earlier than young chimps... and human children.

Not exact matches

So both young humans and chimps both learn by imitating adult behaviors.

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.

So if chimps don't do it, what about young humans?

Chimps don't teach their young to be nice the way humans do, but in 2007 scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found that chimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rChimps don't teach their young to be nice the way humans do, but in 2007 scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found that chimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rchimps do behave selflessly, helping their human caretakers reach a stick or unfamiliar chimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a rchimps open a cage full of food, without expecting a reward.

BEFORE their first pregnancy, young female chimps often play with logs, cuddling them like babies, much as children play with dolls.

In her article on the mental lives of animals, Emma Young wrote, «Chimps... just don't get abstract physical concepts, like...

Matsuzawa told the Associated Press that he thinks the chimps had the edge, because they were younger and, also, human ancestors lost much of this skill over time to free brain space for language ability.

To this slim, ponytailed young woman, chimps looked more clever, more scary, and often more human than anyone had ever suspected.

For decades, researchers assumed that chimps, like other nonhuman primates, weaned their young once the back teeth started coming in.

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.

Noticing that his mother has passed the effects of the drug genetically to young Caesar, Will is shocked to see just how extensive the side effects are, resulting in Caesar developing a mind far beyond any ape, as well as typically human traits such as empathy and compassion, leading to a bond between the chimp and Will's Alzheimer's - afflicted father Charles (John Lithgow).

This beautiful plush chimp was designed by the Jane Goodall Institute to closely resemble the toy that inspired Jane when she was young.