Gibbons comprise four distinct genera, which are less closely related to each other than humans and chimpanzees. |
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Here, Washoe was no longer the baby of the family but was now living with chimpanzees a few years younger than herself. |
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In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds. |
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They were thought to work as did their chemical counterparts excreted by monkeys, baboons and chimpanzees. |
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Humans and gorillas are sister taxa and are more closely related to one another than either is to chimpanzees or baboons. |
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Genetic tests indicate that the viruses came from chimpanzees, baboons, and an African green monkey. |
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Common chimpanzees are very social animals, with males forming the closest bonds. |
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Mountain gorilla populations are extremely tenuous and chimpanzees are hanging by a thread. |
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Early humans split off from a common ancestor shared with chimpanzees between five and eight million years ago. |
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The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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His favorite species for this work are chimpanzees, bonobos, and capuchin monkeys. |
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The team then scrutinized naviculars of A. afarensis, H. habilis, chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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And once legal personhood is secured for chimpanzees, Wise hopes to cast the net of legal rights wider. |
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Elephants, forest buffalo, bush pigs, leopards, gorillas, chimpanzees, and several monkey species roam the forests. |
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A similar story may be told about the gestural communication of chimpanzees. |
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often-fatal disease that affects humans and non-human primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees. |
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Thousands more gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos have been killed for bushmeat. |
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Jane arrived in Gombe with a non-scientific view that chimpanzees, along with dogs and some other mammals, were very like people. |
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Researchers in the United States and Japan have previously shown that chimpanzees and possibly squirrel monkeys can comprehend zero when taught. |
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In April 2002 a party of nine chimpanzees was feeding in a tall Chrysophyllum gorungosanum tree. |
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No one, not even Wise, claims that chimpanzees are capable of responsible behavior. |
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Some animals, but not all, have a sense of what's called haptic touch, humans have it, chimpanzees have it. |
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A quick Internet search reveals a thriving trade in just about every species of primate, from capuchins to chimpanzees. |
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Important studies on elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees and rare and elusive ungulates such as the okapi and duiker have been ongoing for decades. |
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Besides the more well-known gorillas, the zoo is home to two families of chimpanzees and a pair of orangutans. |
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In fact, actually compared to chimpanzees and gorillas the orangutans are really much more endangered. |
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Some of the animals highlighted in the photographs include lions, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and chimpanzees. |
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No African fossil has ever been found that is related to chimpanzees or gorillas. |
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Wild chimpanzees and bonobos can be skilled at selecting tools for particular jobs. |
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The Mercury flights lifted two rhesus monkeys, two chimpanzees, and six men into space. |
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The apes nest on the ground like gorillas but have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees. |
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Could some birds really be as intelligent as primates such as chimpanzees or bonobos? |
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Orangutans and bonobos will be the first to go, then gorillas, and finally chimpanzees. |
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The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to the great apes chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. |
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Her friendly demeanor is appreciated by all, especially by the monkeys, chimpanzees and even the gorilla. |
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Protected species such as elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees are prized, but illegal, pieces of meat. |
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The apes are a category of primates represented in Africa by gorilla, chimpanzees and bonobo. |
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Critics argue that, as a result, young chimps never learn how to be chimpanzees. |
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The apes are most likely a group of giant chimpanzees that display gorilla-like behavior. |
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The sad truth is that even chimpanzees and rats can learn to read simple ideographic language. |
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The research leads to a more recent common ancestor for humans than phylogenetic estimates that assume a relationship with chimpanzees. |
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Somehow they forgot to mention that we share nearly as high a percentage of genes with chimpanzees. |
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Of course, chimpanzees don't proceed to develop full-blown language the way you and I have. |
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It has a relatively short face and canine teeth that are shorter than those of gorillas or chimpanzees. |
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The great apes, chimpanzees, orang-utans or gorillas as well as children respond in the same way. |
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Bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, live in the equatorial rain forests of Congo, and have an extraordinarily happy existence. |
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They are one of four kinds of great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos, and the only apes that come from Asia. |
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It's been known for some time that great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas engage in cultural behavior. |
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Assume that chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor about five million years ago. |
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A study in chimpanzees showed lower levels of sexual activity when the females were given oral contraceptives. |
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The net effect is that hunting bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas has now become big business. |
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Conniff explains that when chimpanzees approach an alpha member, they appear to reduce their body size a bit. |
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Zoologists, for example, once believed that studying chimpanzees in a cage would reveal everything about the animal. |
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Then we discovered tool-using animals, chimpanzees using sticks to dig ants out of anthills. |
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Seeking a snack, wild chimpanzees dip sticks into an anthill to fish out the insects. |
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It's been observed in many other bird species besides parrots and macaws, as well as elephants, macaques, giraffes, rhinos and chimpanzees. |
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Most experts believe the unusual band of apes are giant chimpanzees that display gorilla-like behavior. |
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His artsy-craftsy zoo has a wide range of snakes, alligators, canines, dinosaurs, kangaroos, horses, dolphins, apes, chimpanzees et al. |
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Their interpretation of the attributional capacities of chimpanzees now seems to have been somewhat overly optimistic. |
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The sanctuary will provide lifetime care for Federally owned or supported chimpanzees that are no longer needed for biomedical research. |
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Viarruel said calls had been made by his colleagues to the Ministry of Public Utilities and Environment to repair the boxes where the chimpanzees and mandrills slept. |
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There are so many moving stories about amazing, inspirational people, inspirational moments with chimpanzees. |
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As the chimpanzees fed, our research assistants heard gorillas grunting and moving about in the undergrowth below the tree, apparently feeding on fallen fruits. |
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Since the early 1990s, researchers have been applying the technique to spectacled bears, cougars, foxes, pine martens, chimpanzees, gorillas, and many other species. |
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To me it sounds like we're all stupid, helpless idiots, no different from our kissing cousins, the chimpanzees, trying to learn the Pythagorean theorem. |
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Gorillas practice infanticide and chimpanzees hunt and torture baboons. |
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The great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, form the core of this zone, which is also home to the mandrill baboon, the bongo antelope, and the red river hog. |
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In chimpanzees, six different polymorphic sites were identified. |
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What is the most human-like behaviour you saw in chimpanzees? |
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How is a shameless society even imaginable, given the unbudgeable fact that humans, like dogs and chimpanzees, look to each other for clues on how to behave? |
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Though she had rescued several injured and badly wounded chimpanzees the world over, none had been so badly treated and left uncared for, Ms. Goodall felt. |
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It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females. |
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And thanks to oil palm plantations springing up in Africa, chimpanzees are in danger of extinction. |
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Over 25 percent of chimpanzees in tourist and research groups in Uganda are missing hands or feet as a result of snares from wire traps set out for antelopes. |
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The veteran TV helmer may be directing from a script that could have been written by two trained chimpanzees, but he doesn't do much to enliven the proceedings. |
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They began by sequencing the SEMG2 gene in humans, chimpanzees, pygmy chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, gibbons, macaques, colobus monkeys, and spider monkeys. |
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But when the heart gets involved, all our painfully acquired metaphysical insights go right out the window, and we're reduced to battling it out like rutting chimpanzees. |
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Collecting donations for the underprivileged chimpanzees of the Congo. |
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These include primates such as chimpanzees, some dolphin communities, and crows. |
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Genomic divergence between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. |
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Apart from bipedalism, humans differ from chimpanzees mostly in smelling, hearing, digesting proteins, brain size, and the ability of language. |
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Now she crisscrosses the globe raising money to preserve wildlife habitats and protect chimpanzees from hunters and poachers. |
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West African chimpanzees also use stone hammers and anvils for cracking nuts, as do capuchin monkeys of Boa Vista, Brazil. |
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Findings were confirmed by comparing similar regions of the Y chromosome in humans to the Y chromosomes of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. |
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The comparatively minor anatomical differences between humans and chimpanzees are a result of human bipedalism. |
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The disease infects humans through close contact with infected animals, including chimpanzees, fruit bats and forest antelope. |
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This view is supported by studies of higher apes, particularly chimpanzees. |
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In some ecosystems, however, chimpanzees are predatory, forming parties to hunt monkeys. |
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Then we went to see the condors, coatis, forest buffaloes, giraffes, okapis, red river hogs and on to the chimpanzees. |
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The variation in these skulls were compared to variations in modern humans and within a sample group of chimpanzees. |
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The UWS set up the sanctuaries to care for orphaned chimpanzees and animals seized from smugglers. |
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He compared bones and muscles of human and chimpanzee thumbs, finding that humans have 3 muscles which are lacking in chimpanzees. |
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In both chimpanzees and gorillas, the groups include at least one dominant male, and females leave the group at maturity. |
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Animals include birds, dolphins, elephants, dogs, chimpanzees, honeybees, sea lions, ground squirrels, and whales. |
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The chimpanzees and the hoolock gibbons are taken inside the enclosure after 11 am as the temperature rises after that and they cannot bear the heat. |
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Species close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans may be represented by Nakalipithecus fossils found in Kenya and Ouranopithecus found in Greece. |
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Chimpanzee babies are cognitively more developed than human babies until the age of six months, when the rapid development of human brains surpasses chimpanzees. |
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Humans' brains are about three times bigger than in chimpanzees. |
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The researchers found that, despite appearances, the variations in the Dmanisi skulls were no greater than those seen among modern people and among chimpanzees. |
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However, the discovery of tool construction among chimpanzees and related primates has discarded the notion of the use of technology as unique to humans. |
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The research included an examination of the original fossils and a comparison with skeletons of modern humans and protohumans and also chimpanzees. |
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Britain has already forbidden the use of great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutangs in testing, and the days of Beagles chain-smoking are long gone. |
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They keep many rare and endangered species from Britain and around the world including snow leopards, chimpanzees, red pandas and Sumatran tigers. |
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They found that chimpanzees fed on significantly larger trees than other reproductively mature trees of the same species, especially if their fruits emitted an obvious smell. |
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Recovery of cytopathogenic agent from chimpanzees with coryza. |
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One of humanity's two closest primate relatives, chimpanzees, are anything but egalitarian, forming themselves into hierarchies that are often dominated by an alpha male. |
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South Sudan's forest reserves also provided habitat for bongo, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, forest elephants, chimpanzees, and forest monkeys. |
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In groups of modern chimpanzees that crack nuts with a stone hammer and an anvil, juvenile animals spend several years learning the technique from experienced adults. |
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