It's well established that infectious disease is the greatest threat to the endangered chimpanzees made famous by the field studies of Jane Goodall at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Now, new research led by scientists at ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2021
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One of the reasons humans are so resilient is our ability to mold our behavior to ever changing situations. It wasn't so long ago that many of us hugged when we met. In the middle of a pandemic, in which close contact between ...
Evolution
Sep 18, 2020
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A University of Kent study has found that cultivated foods offer chimpanzees in West Africa more energetic benefits than wild foods available in the region.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2020
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We humans may consider a long-lived life to be anywhere from 60 to 100 years, depending on where we live. But what about chimpanzees, one of our closest living relatives?
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2019
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On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park in East Africa. Researchers ran to find Kidman – an adult female chimpanzee—and her child being attacked by the dogs of poachers. In their ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2019
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Different types of cognitive abilities can lead to a variety of knowledge that can help an animal to find, access, and guard food and mates. One approach to gain insight into the evolution of such cognitive abilities is by ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2019
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Research conducted by the University of Kent has suggested that the sexual selection hypothesis for infanticide may be the key driver for the high rate of infant killings among a community of chimpanzees in Uganda.
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2019
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In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the western African subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) as "Critically Endangered". It had previously been listed as "Endangered."
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2019
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Although bonobos and chimpanzees are similar in size, bonobo calls sound an octave higher than chimpanzee calls. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, explain this discrepancy ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2018
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Home is where the heart is, they say. But a chimpanzee's home may be where we can find the origins of the entire human species.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2018
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