A team of researchers with the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes and the Urban Wildlife Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo, has found that two species of great apes tend to look longer at unfamiliar ...
Chimpanzees appear to consume plants with medicinal properties to treat their ailments, according to a study published on June 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elodie Freymann from the University of Oxford, UK, and ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2024
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When your neighbor asks to borrow a cup of sugar and you readily comply, is your positive response a function of the give and take that characterize your longstanding relationship? Or does it represent payment –– or prepayment ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 20, 2012
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Infectious disease should be a key consideration in wildlife conservation, suggests a study focused on primates in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park, published by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The study investigated ...
Ecology
Mar 10, 2015
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A key feature of human language is our ability to combine words into larger compositional phrases, where the meaning of the whole is related to the meaning of the parts. Where this ability came from or how it evolved, however, ...
Evolution
May 4, 2023
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Few species develop as slowly as humans, both in terms of developing adult skills and brain development. Human infants are born so underdeveloped that they cannot survive without adult care and feeding for some years after ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2020
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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 are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically-structured sentences. The question of where this extraordinary capacity originates ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2022
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With the move of its last two chimps, a former Los Angeles County animal sanctuary that was abruptly closed in 2019 is now empty of its animal charges, state officials said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 29, 2022
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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 Elisabetta Palagi from Univerity ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2018
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