Affable apes live longer, study shows
Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests.
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Oct 9, 2018
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News tagged with captive chimpanzees
Can chimpanzee vocalizations reveal the origins of human language?
It's very difficult to determine when, how and why human language began. While fossil primates provide important clues about human evolution, the sounds they made and the soft tissue involved in making those sounds weren't ...
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2018
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From Beethoven to Bieber, why playing music to chimps is falling on deaf ears
Playing music to captive chimpanzees has no positive effect on their welfare, researchers have concluded.
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2017
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Final biomedical trial on captive chimpanzees is first oral Ebola vaccine for saving wild apes
The results from the final biomedical research trial on captive chimpanzees for the foreseeable future have been published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2017
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Ebola vaccine success highlights dilemma of testing on captive chimps to save wild apes
A study illustrates 'high conservation potential' of vaccines for endangered wild primates devastated by viral disease, but highlights need for access to captive chimpanzees so vaccines can be trialled before being administered ...
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2014
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Further restrictions proposed on using chimpanzees for research
The federal government moved Tuesday to further protect chimpanzees, proposing to change the animals' endangered status and increase oversight of their use in research.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2013
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Tooth development and weaning in chimpanzees not as closely related as once thought
For more than two decades, scientists have relied on studies that linked juvenile primate tooth development with their weaning as a rough proxy for understanding similar developmental landmarks in the evolution of early humans. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2013
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I know something you don't know -- and I will tell you
Researchers found that wild chimpanzees monitor the information available to other chimpanzees and inform their ignorant group members of danger.
Plants & Animals
Dec 29, 2011
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Necessity is the mother of invention for clever birds (w/Videos)
Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have found that rooks, a member of the crow family, are capable of using and making tools, modifying them to make them work and using two tools ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2009
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