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phys.org | 7/24/2019 | Staff
On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park in East Africa. Researchers ran to find Kidman – an adult female chimpanzee—and her child being attacked by the dogs of...
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phys.org | 7/23/2019 | Staff
How do human-unique ranging styles, like large home range and trail use, influence the way we travel to our goals? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,...
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Live Science | 7/28/2019 | Staff
Going to the zoo can be a great adventure, especially if you find poop hurtling in your direction. The likely perpetrators, chimpanzees, are known to sometimes throw their feces at visitors.
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phys.org | 7/27/2019 | Staff
Previous studies have showed that chimpanzees have excellent long-term memory abilities. However, little is known so far about their working memory abilities. To explore this subject, the...
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ScienceDaily | 7/24/2019 | Staff
Previous studies showed that chimpanzees have excellent long-term memory abilities. However, little is known so far about their working memory abilities. To shed light on these abilities researchers...
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Science | AAAS | 7/16/2019 | Staff
Watching a movie with a friend can make you feel closer to that person, and more likely to hang out with them in the future. The same, it turns out, is true of chimpanzees.
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www.archaeology.org | 6/19/2019 | Staff(Kathelijne Koops)ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—The Asahi Shimbun reports that an international team of researchers has spotted chimpanzees in the rainforests of Guinea in West Africa catching and eating...
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phys.org | 10/18/2018 | Staff
Research conducted by the University of Kent has suggested that the sexual selection hypothesis for infanticide may be the key driver for the high rate of infant killings among a community of...
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phys.org | 9/10/2018 | Staff
Urban expansion and hunting have pushed chimpanzees, humanity's closest relative in the animal kingdom, into shrinking islets of wildness, top experts said Tuesday after a three-day meeting in...
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phys.org | 5/15/2019 | Staff
Why do we fish? At some point eons ago, our primarily fruit-eating ancestors put their hands in the water to catch and eat aquatic life, inadvertently supplementing their diet with nutrients that...
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phys.org | 5/15/2019 | Staff
Scientists have observed wild chimpanzees tucking into an unusual snack: tortoises, whose hard shells they crack against tree trunks before scooping out the meat.
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ScienceDaily | 5/23/2019 | Staff
"We have known for decades that chimpanzees feed on meat from a variety of animal species, but until now the consumption of reptiles has not been observed," says Tobias Deschner, a primatologist at...
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ABC News | 5/23/2019 | Staff
Scientists say they have observed wild chimpanzees tucking into an unusual snack: tortoises, whose hard shells they cracked against tree trunks before scooping out the meat.
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ScienceDaily | 5/22/2019 | Staff
A team of anthropologists from the University of Kent and universities in Spain, in collaboration with the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, made their discoveries from hidden cameras...
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Mail Online | 9/3/2018 | Ian Randall For Mailonline
Chimpanzees can figure out on their own how to use sticks as tools to dig up buried items of food — without needing a demonstration first. An international research team led by the University of...
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phys.org | 5/15/2019 | Staff
Chimpanzees in captivity can successfully work out how to use tools to excavate underground food, even if they've never been presented with an underground food scenario before, according to a study...
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phys.org | 1/23/2012 | Staff
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, conducted behavioral observations and collected urine samples for cortisol...
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ScienceDaily | 4/5/2019 | Staff
The authors found that urinary cortisol levels were higher in all males during unstable compared to stable dominance periods, whereas aggression rates showed the reversed pattern, with higher rates...
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ScienceDaily | 3/29/2019 | StaffThe authors used IUCN's Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys (A.P.E.S.) database, collating 58 survey datasets (three-quarters of which were unpublished) for the entire range of western...
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phys.org | 3/7/2019 | Staff
Compared to other animals, chimpanzees show tremendous variation across groups in their behavior—from the types of tools they use in their feeding behavior to the specific gestures they use in...
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ScienceDaily | 3/7/2019 | Staff
Much of the empirical work and resulting debate on the loss of wildlife biodiversity has been conducted in the context of species decline or loss of genetic diversity and ecosystem functions.
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phys.org | 3/6/2019 | Staff
In a new study, Leipzig researchers collected feces from chimpanzees living at Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, and analyzed chewing efficiency during dry and rainy periods.
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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.
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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...
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ScienceDaily | 2/4/2019 | StaffHIV 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...
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Live Science | 1/24/2019 | Staff
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...
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ScienceDaily | 1/22/2019 | StaffWriting 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...
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phys.org | 11/15/2018 | Staff
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...
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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...
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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.
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ScienceDaily | 10/29/2018 | StaffThese 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...
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phys.org | 10/23/2018 | Staff
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...
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phys.org | 10/18/2018 | Staff
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...
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ScienceDaily | 10/10/2018 | Staff
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...
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ScienceDaily | 9/10/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Federalist | 8/23/2018 | Christopher Jacobs
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.
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ScienceDaily | 6/28/2018 | Staff
"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...
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phys.org | 5/21/2018 | Staff
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...
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The Telegraph | 5/16/2018 | Henry Bodkin
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...
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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.
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phys.org | 5/15/2018 | Staff
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...
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ScienceDaily | 4/25/2018 | Staff
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...
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phys.org | 3/26/2018 | Staff
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...
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Mail Online | 3/26/2018 | Maggie O\
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...
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phys.org | 3/7/2018 | Staff
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...
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phys.org | 3/6/2018 | Staff
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.
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Science | AAAS | 2/27/2018 | Staff
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...
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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...
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The Telegraph | 1/17/2018 | Henry BodkinIt 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.
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Mail Online | 12/28/2017 | Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
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