Sentences with phrase «young chimps»

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

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

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

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.

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.

Apart from the quantity of information, the new collection also includes two elements rarely captured: quiet vocalizations like a chimpanzee's «hoo» of surprise, and young chimps» soft grunts.

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.

When young chimps at Bossou try their hand at it, primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa has found, the nuts keep slipping off the flat stone, or the young chimps can't hit them, or they strike at a bad angle and the nut goes whizzing through the forest like an errant bullet.

Again, many of the youngest chimps died, and the cycle started over.

But social play of the orphaned juveniles resulted more often in aggression than social play of the young chimps that were reared by their mother.

Astonished beyond their wildest imaginations when they learn Taylor can write, the young chimp couple can not understand the negative reaction their discovery receives from Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans), their superior and Keeper of the Faith.

Things do not go well — a young chimp is shot, and the humans chased away — which leads to a series of escalating confrontations and, eventually, full - out war.

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