Sentences with phrase «young chimpanzees at»

Smith had two nature photographers follow five young chimpanzees at a field site in Uganda's Kibale National Park for nearly a year and a half.

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A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide - ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms — all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.

So zoologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and colleagues recorded the laughs of young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and one siamang at zoos and sanctuaries.

In the incident, a female chimpanzee called Noel at Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in northern Zambia sat down by the dead body of a young male, Thomas, whom she had previously adopted.

The young chimpanzees made fewer errors and were quicker to respond than their mothers — however, during control tests involving each chimpanzee working individually with a computer program, the mothers were faster, suggesting that young chimpanzees are better at paying attention to their mothers than vice versa.

However, in the second study, led by Felix Warneken, also at the Max Planck Institute, three young chimpanzees helped their human minder reach for objects even without any hope of reward — just like human children as young as 18 months old.