Mail Online
| 2/13/2019
| Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Man's closest animal relative, chimps, communicate in a distinctly 'human-like' way, scientists have found. The primates use gestures that follow some of the same rules as basic human language.
Mail Online
| 2/10/2019
| Sophie Law For Mailonline
Clever chimpanzees used a fallen branch as a ladder to escape from their enclosure at Belfast Zoo on Saturday. The intelligent primates turned a tree into a makeshift ladder and scaled high walls...
HIV and SIV infect and kill immune cells called CD4 T cells, a process that ultimately leads to AIDS. Publishing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hahn's lab and an...
Kimberly is the reference editor for Live Science and Space.com. She has a bachelor's degree in marine biology from Texas A&M University, a master's degree in biology from Southeastern Louisiana...
Writing this week (Jan. 21, 2019) in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections, a team led by Tony Goldberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and an...
Killer whales display personality traits similar to those of humans and chimpanzees, such as playfulness, cheerfulness and affection, according to new research published by the American...
Mail Online
| 11/15/2018
| Tim Collins For Mailonline
Killer whales display personality traits similar to those of humans and chimpanzees such as playfulness, cheerfulness and affection, new research suggests. Experts in Spain analysed the...
Mail Online
| 11/7/2018
| Harry Pettit For Mailonline
New-born babies laugh just like chuckling chimpanzees. That's according to a new study, which found that - like their non-human primate cousins - babies exhale and inhale as they gurgle happily.
These primates often make decisions faster that benefits others than themselves, according to a newly published University of Michigan study. For decades, social scientists and biologists have sought...
Chemical communication is widely used in the animal kingdom to convey social information. For example, animals use olfactory cues to recognize group or family members, or to choose genetically...
Research carried out by the University of Kent sheds light on the infanticidal behaviour of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and demonstrates that females are highly sensitive to the relative risks...
Researchers from the MPI-EVA observed natural food sharing behavior of the chimpanzees of the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, and found that chimpanzees are very selective in who they share...
Furthermore, the researchers found that chimpanzee hunting behavior was associated with the activation of oxytocin, a neuro-hormone established as a facilitator of cooperative behavior in humans and...
Last we checked in with Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, he was hard at work adding literally dozens of new federal health care requirements to a Republican “repeal-and-replace” bill.
"Leaf clipping is a special behaviour. It is a rare example of tool-use in a communicative context and has been proposed to be cultural, varying in its meaning in different social groups of...
As cancer and other non-infectious diseases continue to rise all over the world it's become harder for scientists to find safe, effective treatments. In addition, bacteria are becoming more and more...
Chimpanzee beds are cleaner than those of humans because, unlike us, the animals change their “sheets” every night, a new study has found. The great apes build complex tree nests out of branches and...
Mail Online
| 5/16/2018
| Victoria Allen for the Daily Mail
Chimpanzees keep their beds cleaner than humans, scientists have discovered. The great apes build complex tree nests out of branches and leaves in which they sleep.
During their evolutionary history hominins underwent physiological and behavioral changes to cope with and adapt to more open and hotter environments. These changes include increased sweat capacity...
The bad news: the vast majority of these great apes (80 percent) exist outside of protected areas, and gorilla populations are declining by 2.7 percent annually. The WCS-led study titled "Guns, germs...
Humphrey was a top-ranking male chimpanzee in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, in the early 1970s and known for his frequent attacks on other chimps. Tensions between Humphrey and his southern rivals...
Power, jealousy and ambition motivate chimpanzees to fight the same way they cause clashes between humans, researchers have found. Scientists at Duke University found that our closest relatives are...
Play is more frequent in captive adult chimpanzees than in captive adult lowland gorillas, according to a study published March 7, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Giada Cordoni and...
Researchers at The University of Manchester are using computer simulations of chimpanzees to improve not only our understanding of how the animals walk, but also the technology we use to do it.
Want to say “Hello,” but don’t know the local language? Try waving your hand. Such gestures, common among humans, are also surprisingly similar among chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest great ape...
Mail Online
| 2/8/2018
| Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Willpower is a sign of high intelligence, and a new study shows some chimps have it. Just like in humans, the smartest chimps are typically better at exerting self-control and delaying gratification...
It estimated that primates spent approximately 19 per cent of their time on screen grinning; they were clothed 50 per cent of the time and appeared alongside human companions 87 per cent of the time.
Mail Online
| 12/28/2017
| Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
The emoji library is constantly expanding, with dozens of new characters added every few months – but, even as they become more detailed, emoji aren’t always accurate.
Brent Clark, 58, stood on the roof of his Faria Beach home and began watering the wooden roof tiles. Past the railroad tracks and Highway 1, flames made their way down the hillsides as they burned...
Chimpanzees adjust their warning calls if they think a fellow primate hasn’t picked up on a nearby threat, a new study finds. The results, published in the journal Science Advances, reveal that...
Mail Online
| 11/15/2017
| Shivali Best For Mailonline
It was thought to be a skill unique to humans, but a new study has revealed that chimpanzees also warn other members of their group when they suspect danger. Researchers studying chimpanzees in...
Mail Online
| 11/15/2017
| Shivali Best For Mailonline
From performing dramatic gestures to using words such as 'here' and 'there', humans use a range of techniques to locate objects. And a new study suggests we may not be alone in using gestures to...
Mail Online
| 11/1/2017
| Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Chimpanzees have been shown spontaneously taking turns to complete a number sequence puzzle. The research is the first to show that chimpanzees can cope with complex turn-taking, with no cues to...
The evidence of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) spontaneously using sticks to scoop food from water surfaces is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. Researchers from the University of...
It's a familiar problem: you leave the house and while closing the door, the question whether the stove was turned on or off pops up in your head. Although annoying, this problem could easily be...
A new study from Lund University, published in the journal Primates, has instead targeted the interactive side of imitation directly, and finds that the divide between humans and chimpanzees is less...
Mail Online
| 8/21/2017
| Cecile Borkhataria For Dailymail.com
The human practice of copying the behavior of others make us effective learners and allows skills, knowledge and inventions to be passed on from one generation to the next.
Copying the behaviour of others makes us effective learners and allow skills, knowledge and inventions to be passed on from one generation to the next. Imitation is therefore viewed as the key...
Gao's research team wanted to find out whether chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can grasp extended patterns. They used the rock-paper-scissors game, a popular children's game in which the hand signal...
Mail Online
| 8/1/2017
| Luke Barnes For Mailonline
This is the moment a gang of chimpanzees ruthlessly dethrone their alpha male - by viciously attacking him and leaving him bloodied on the ground. The rebellious group circle their leader, wrestle...
In an inspiring video interview, world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall tells Dean of UNSW Science Emma Johnston that the resilience of nature and the indomitable human spirit give her hope for...
It is January 2016. On an expanse of waste ground not far from Vancouver airport lies a chilling and spectacular sight: a sprawling labour camp, larger than a football stadium, where gun towers and...
PETA has filed a suit against a Missouri facility that it has been warring with since late last year over the housing of a number of chimpanzees — two of which were used in Hollywood productions —...
Research by Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher from the University of Kent has found chimpanzees modify their interactions with other chimpanzees if higher ranking members of their community are nearby.
A pair of studies suggests the evolutionary roots of humanlike cooperation can be seen in chimpanzees, albeit in rudimentary forms. Whether it’s giving to charity or helping a stranger with...
Two chimpanzees that were caged in a trailer lot and a primate sanctuary do not have the legal rights of humans in New York, an appeals court said Thursday. Lawyers argued the adult male chimps,...
Loading The future was looking uncertain for a group of more than 60 chimpanzees that formerly served as laboratory research subjects for the New York Blood Center (NYBC) in Liberia — until the...
Research by PhD candidate Nicola Bryson-Morrison from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) suggests chimpanzees are aware of the risks of foraging too close to...
Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from the...
The findings could play a vital role in helping further understand how human activities and development affect chimpanzee behaviour and habitat use. Nicola and her team conducted the research in...