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For economic success, channel your inner bonobo
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Psychology Professor Marc Hauser dispels misconceptions about human and ape behavior with regard to patience, impulsiveness, and economic interactions in Harvard Museum of Natural History talk.
Here's one I made earlier: Chimps learn from watching videos
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lots of species have been discovered to use simple tools. Some birds use twigs to pull grubs out of their hiding places, and chimpanzees will strip leaves from branches to fish for termites ...
Why can we talk? 'Humanized' mice speak volumes
May 28, 2009 |
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Mice carrying a "humanized version" of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue ...
Upping the ant-e: Clever chimps boost termite catch
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Chimpanzees not only use a tool to snare termites but are able to modify it as well, a skill that requires conceptual and cultural skills, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Survey: People know much about chimps
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Dec 11, 2007 |
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A Humane Society of the United States survey determined that people know more than they thought about chimpanzees, including the fact they are endangered.
Yawning toons make an ape gape
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday.
Chimps, like humans, focus on faces
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A chimp's attention is captured by faces more effectively than by bananas. A series of experiments described in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the apes are wired to res ...
How female chimps call off the competition
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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Female chimps are more concerned with having sex with many different males than finding the strongest mate, according to researchers.
The secret to chimp strength
Mar 30, 2009 |
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February's brutal chimpanzee attack, during which a pet chimp inflicted devastating injuries on a Connecticut woman, was a stark reminder that chimps are much stronger than humans—as much as four-times stronger, some researchers ...
New evidence of culture in wild chimpanzees
Oct 22, 2009 |
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A new study of chimpanzees living in the wild adds to evidence that our closest primate relatives have cultural differences, too. The study, reported online on October 22nd in Current Biology shows that neighb ...
Humans and chimps register faces by using similar brain regions
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face, according to a report published online on December 18th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Wild male chimps steal to impress females
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Sep 12, 2007 |
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Scottish researchers studying wild chimpanzees in West Africa have discovered male chimps steal fruits from local farms to attract female mates.
Surgeon operates to rescue chimp with rare deformity
May 19, 2008 |
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An orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Liverpool has performed a groundbreaking operation on a chimp in Cameroon to correct a deformity more commonly seen in dogs.
Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees
Apr 20, 2007 |
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The largest study to date of genetic variation among chimpanzees has found that the traditional, geography-based sorting of chimps into three populations—western, central and eastern—is underpinned by significant ...
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