Chimpanzees don't automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now used field experiments to show that chimpanzees thus do not simply invent nut cracking ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
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Leprosy has been found in wild chimpanzees for the first time, a new study reveals.
Ecology
Oct 13, 2021
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While humans are able to survive in arid climates, great apes need swaths of lush forest in Africa (bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas) or Southeast Asia (orangutans) to thrive, except for some innovative savanna chimpanzees.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2021
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Roads have a negative impact on chimpanzee populations that can extend for more than 17 km, new research shows.
Ecology
Sep 15, 2021
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Humans were thought to have the longest primate strides for their height, but now it turns out that chimpanzees take 25% longer strides than we do, thanks to their swiveling hips, which rotate by as much as 61deg every time ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2021
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If you're a male chimp looking for love—or offspring—it pays to make friends with other males.
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2021
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Unlike early human species, chimpanzees do not seem to be able to spontaneously make and use sharp stone tools, even when they have all the materials and incentive to do so. That was the finding of a study of a total of eleven ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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A research team from Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has, for the first time, observed lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas in the wild. Whether this ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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The death of a mother is a traumatic event for immature offspring in species in which mothers provide prolonged maternal care, such as in long-lived mammals, including humans. Orphan mammals die earlier and have less offspring ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of human ancestors, a new study from the University of Adelaide and Arizona State University has found.
Evolution
Jun 4, 2021
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