Court hearing in NYC on whether chimps have rights
Lawyers for two chimpanzees are heading to court to argue that the animals have "personhood" rights and should be freed from the Long Island university where they are kept.
Lawyers for two chimpanzees are heading to court to argue that the animals have "personhood" rights and should be freed from the Long Island university where they are kept.
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Members of a troop of chimpanzees living at a site called Fongoli in southeastern Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them to hunt and kill bushbabies. The ...
Attorney Steven Wise is on a crusade to prove that, as a matter of law, chimps are people too.
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2015
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As deforestation, climate change and other pressures threaten habitats, how might chimpanzees adapt?
General Physics
Mar 4, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers has, for the first time, decoded gestures used by chimpanzees in the wild to communicate with one another. In their paper published in the journal Current Biology, the team, led by primatologists ...
If you're trying to outwit the competition, it might be better to have been born a chimpanzee, according to a study by researchers at Caltech, which found that chimps at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute consistently ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2014
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A new study compares the relative rate of molecular evolution between humans and chimps with that of their lice. The researchers wanted to know whether evolution marches on at a steady pace in all creatures or if subtle changes ...
Evolution
Jan 7, 2014
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Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, observed that orphaned chimpanzees ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2013
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While in the past century there have been several documented examples of young, healthy athletes who have died suddenly of heart disease during competitive sporting events, a new study finds that this problem also extends ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2013
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Two researchers have provided the first video-based observation of swimming and diving apes. Instead of the usual dog-paddle stroke used by most terrestrial mammals, these animals use a kind of breaststroke. The swimming ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2013
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