Looking for trouble: Territorial aggressions and trespasses pay off among primates
Territorial boundary patrolling by chimpanzees is a striking example of group-level cooperation displayed by our closest primate relatives.
Territorial boundary patrolling by chimpanzees is a striking example of group-level cooperation displayed by our closest primate relatives.
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2017
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Passing skills down through the generations, previously thought to be unique to humanity, has been discovered in chimpanzees.
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Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from the Netherlands Institute for ...
Evolution
May 31, 2017
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Research by PhD candidate Nicola Bryson-Morrison from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) suggests chimpanzees are aware of the risks of foraging too close to humans.
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May 30, 2017
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Humans set themselves apart from other animals in a number of ways, including our ability to make tools. When the anthropologist Jane Goodall discovered that wild chimpanzees frequently make and use tools, her advisor Louis ...
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2017
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A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees. Previous research suggested ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2017
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Playing music to captive chimpanzees has no positive effect on their welfare, researchers have concluded.
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Mar 29, 2017
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A 20-year demographic study of a large chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park has revealed that, under the right ecological conditions, our close primate relatives can lead surprisingly long lives in the wild.
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Mar 20, 2017
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The results from the final biomedical research trial on captive chimpanzees for the foreseeable future have been published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Mar 9, 2017
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Most dog owners will tell you they consider their beloved pets to be members of their families. Now new research suggests that dogs may be even more like us than previously thought.
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Feb 27, 2017
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