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Would I give it, Amber asked, to one of the orphan chimps we were caring for, so that he might be less lonely?

This event encouraged Jane to keep trying to form a sense of deeper trust with the chimps.

He had never experienced chimps becoming aggressive, he said, so had never planned what to do with Nim if he got like that.

Jensen and his colleagues placed two chimps into separate cages facing one another, with a table in between them that held peanuts.

There has been growing concern among the researchers in Mahale over a respiratory infection that seems to be spreading among the chimps.

But to make their experience more like that of the chimps, the kids were encouraged not to speak during the experiment.

Flo was one of the most sexually attractive female chimps in a troop studied by Jane Goodall.

Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.

"It's very scary, knowing the chimps seem to be dying at a younger age, " Jane told me.

But, if capuchins can manage to bring a stranger into their lives and keep it as a pet for well over a year, why don't chimps?

Chimps will follow a person's gaze, but by looking at his head, even if his eyes are closed.

Six chimps were trained to operate a special vending machine. One ripe grape came out for each while taken put into the shot.

Sheldon: Oh, please. The only way she could make a contribution to science would be if they resumed sending chimps into space.

Although older bonobos appeared to maintain their youthful tolerance, chimps tended to be less tolerant with age.

Shows cognitive complexity and flexibility rivaling that of chimps: the species maintains cultural traditions in the wild.

They are now probing other parts of the brain in humans, chimps and macaques to see where neoteny might play a role.

Some of the chimps even appear to dance themselves into a trance-like state, as some humans do during religious and cultural rituals.

Her upper canine teeth are more like the stubby teeth of modern people than the long, sharp ones of chimps.

Moreover, it seems to have made the jump from chimps to people only once.

Will's boss calls for the immediate cessation of the experiments and for all the remaining chimps to be euthanized.

"It is a concern, " Wilson said. "The last thing these chimps need is another source of mortality. "

The hypothesis was that chimps would spontaneously learn to talk the way human children do.

By contrast, chimps and bonobos walk more flexibly, 'with their wrists in a bent position as opposed to being stacked-up, ' she said.

As well as eating fruits, leaves, and termites, chimps also occasionally eat small monkeys when fortunate enough to get their hands on them.

Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills.

Other chimps joined him eventually, but witnesses said he still preferred people right until the end.

Bananas gave Jane an edge. A steady supply lured chimps and enabled her to gain their trust.

Imagine you're the sole human being living on a planet populated with nothing but chimps .

Page and his collaborators set out to test this idea by sequencing the male-specific region of the Y (MSY) in both chimps and humans.

But Parham realized that there must be some key differences between the ways NK cells in chimps and humans behave.

Now, Jane Goodall has here a play face along with one of her favorite chimps.

But the female chimps also seem to act out nurturing them, holding the sticks close and bringing them into their nests at naptime.

They, like the chimps, could see their potential partner through an opening between the two rooms.

To understand what motivated this violence, the researchers looked at which chimps were actually attacked.

But roughly half these age-linked genes in humans differed from chimps in terms of when they were active during development.

He found that at an astonishingly early age kids begin to help others, and to share information, in ways that adult chimps hardly ever do.

Chimps have done everything from fly jet planes to sleep in the same bed as a former President of the United States.

In the first experiment, the researchers put a bowl of fruit in an enclosure and allowed pairs of age-matched chimps or bonobos to enter.

Rather than selfless behavior, he says, the adoptions could be the result of adults mistaking the young chimps for their own offspring.

This is necessary to understand how we differ from chimps and one another and why we inherit diseases.

After an unfortunate incident, Caesar's mom is killed, and the lab manager halts the project and orders all the chimps to be put down.

So much for the wonders of technology and medicine, for all our advances, human mortality rates are on par with chimps.

Chimps performed much better than university students in speed and accuracy when the numbers appeared only briefly on screen.

Two smaller, female chimps were nearby with their hands stretched34 out, as if begging.

When chimps play, Panksepp notes, they make panting sounds that could be a form of laughter.

They found that, in general, the young chimps performed better than their mothers and the adult humans.

When the chimps slept close by, I stayed up in the mountains near them.

This might be because chimps are more compassionate than geladas, or because the chimps had food nearby and didn't have to wander off.

Gorillas and chimps can walk on two legs, but only for short stretches, and with a kind of bent-over posture.

Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family.

Chimps, of course, have no birth control, so the interaction has an evolutionary impact.

She lived at the dawn of a new era, when chimps and people began walking (or climbing) along their own evolutionary trails.

Then they compared the strength of these correlations between humans and chimps.

She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.

The chimps would not let her within 50 yards of them, and she had observed very little.

The researchers then varied the amount of time that the numbers appeared on-screen to compare the working memory of humans and chimps.

In general, the young chimps performed better than their mothers and adult humans.

She also founded sanctuaries for chimps who could be freed from captivity, including many orphaned by the bush-meat trade.

Young chimps apparently have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals and recall them even better than human adults do.

It is now known that chimps lack immunity to some human diseases, so Gombe researchers must keep at least 25 feet away.

The larynx, or voice box, sits lower in the throat in humans than in chimps, one of several features that enable human speech.

That information could help determine whether tourists should be kept further away from the chimps. . .

Just wire the chimps up to love that look, and apparently they do.

chimps , on average, use as much energy using two legs as they did when they used all four limbs .

When your kids misbehave, maybe you tell them to stop acting like a bunch of chimps.

Villagers at Bossou do not eat chimpanzees because they think of chimps as the reincarnation of their ancestors.

I don't bother with lunch when I'm out. Some of the wild fruit chimps eat are quite tasty when ripe, though most are horribly astringent.

But studies of chimps in captivity, where they are exposed to human behaviors, do not necessary reflect how they act in the real world.

Not only were they worse than statistical models, they could barely eke out a tie with the proverbial dart-throwing chimps.

If both female bonobos and chimps are better at tool use than males, I wonder where the learned helplessness of human females comes from.

The scientists believe that the virus spread from chimps to humans most likely through bushmeat hunters.

Goodall found that chimps experience a wide range of emotions quite familiar to humans, including anger and grief.

"We were trying to discover if rhesus monkeys recognized themselves in a mirror as chimps do, " she said. (They apparently do not. )

Dr. Matsuzawa speculated that perhaps somewhere back in commonevolution, humans and chimps had this ability.

In the early '90s, a flu-like illness killed off at least 11 of Mahale's chimps.

The scientists believe that the virus spread from chimps to humans most likely through bush meat hunters.

Then someone had the bright idea of testing chimps on other chimps' faces, rather than our own.

Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.

So, infinite common chimps on infinite typewriters might churn out Hamlet. Infinite bonobos would more likely produce South Park.

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists.

In fact, adult bonobos rarely reached the levels of psychological sophistication shown by baby common chimps.

The behaviors we consider to be the most evil are also the most prevalent, and in some cases the most unique, to humans and chimps.

It's not just humans, there's evidence that chimps conform as well.

Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them.

The remaining chimps also avoided sleeping in the area where Pansy had died even though keepers had cleaned and disinfected it.

See more photographs from the February 2010 feature story " The Truth About Chimps. "

We don't buy and sell people any more. Since chimps and bonobos share 98. 7% of our DNA, don't they deserve the same respect?

Matsuzawa says Ayumu, one of the chimps, showed an accuracy of more than 80 percent using an ability similar to photographic memory.

The researchers also found that chimps scratched and groomed themselves much more.

For instance, there's a small population of chimps in a patch of forest called Kwitanga, about ten miles east of Gombe.

Mourning rituals in the animal kingdom have also been observed in whales, elephants, chimps and gorillas.

Some chimps have developed fly whisks in the form of leaves. Others have learnt how to tickle themselves.

The last words in the documentary come from a kind-hearted vet at the chimps' animal testing lab, one Dr Mahoney.

Scientists studying chimps in a national park in Uganda have found that all the youngsters like to play with sticks.

Then Dr. Wolfe showed his chimps the seamy side of money: work.

Some 85% of the institutions that responded reported that their chimps spend more than 12 hours a day in holding areas.

Recent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans.

Female chimps also tend to be better at tool use than male chimps.

Chimps often use stones to crack nuts and chew fibrous foods to remove the juice before discarding the fibre.

For instance, humans sexually mature roughly five years after chimps do, and our teeth erupt later.

'Chimps and bonobos spend a lot of time in the trees. And gorillas do not, ' Schmitt said.

She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it.

On the whole, female dolphins are more sociable than female chimps.

De Waal says that chimps might actually have the capacity for cumulative traditions.

Hahn said chimps and people probably caught the virus the same way, by eating infected monkeys.

On Tuesdays they eat breakfast with the pandas and the frogs, And eat dinner in the evening with chimps, and cats, and dogs.

Three years earlier Jane had observed chimps fishing for termites with plant stems.

Little Amber Mary knew about grief; her brother, who had loved to watch the chimps at the zoo, had died of leukemia.

Chimps spent about 0. 1% of their time being aggressive when they were in the enclosures.

Her research showed the connections between chimps and human beings.

Language, writing, music, mathematics are other achievements which make me feel better than the ducks in the park and the chimps in the zoo.

Humans and chimps, it turns out, value age in sexual partners very differently.

And they found that even as juveniles, common chimps quickly learn to interact preferentially with people they discovered had treats.

Ten of the 18 adoptions were by males, even though male chimps normally have little to do with their offspring.

Dr. Matsuzawa and a colleague, Sana Inoue, first trained chimps to recognize the numerals 1 through 9 in sequence.

Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.

The chimps were rewarded with raisins or apple cubes for correct answers.

It is now illegal to keep chimps as pets in Connecticut.

In each case, males colluded to kill chimps from a neighbouring group.

Older chimps may go bald, and leopards suffer faded spots, but not all creatures bear such badges of seniority.

In both humans and chimps, about the same percentage of genes changed in activity over time.

girl chimps in East Africa use sticks to dig in the soil two year earlier than boys do.

Human beings are prone to catching colds under the changeable weather in early spring, so are chimps .

The two species are so similar that their DNA differs by just 0. 6 percent, or about half the differences between humans and chimps.

Chimpanzees sometimes smile from pleasure, as when baby chimps play with each other.

Chimps in South Africa have also been filmed sucking on cancer sticks.

Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest.

For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.

Chimps are just like us: deceitful, violent-and cultured.

How would these people respond when told that humans and chimps share 99 per cent of their genes?

What's your position on people who have chimps as pets? Siobhan Laurino, LYNN, MASS.

All of the chimps had already learned the ascending order of Arabic numerals, from 1 to 9.

Chimps spent 0. 4% of their time in the enclosures having a scratch. That went up to 1. 6% in the holding areas.

Over six million years, we and the chimps evolved our different ways.

Chimps have a long and highly controversial history in advertising too, helping sell everything from tea and soft drinks to cars.

Another killer wasthe crocodile, which still hunts chimps in the Congo River basin.

The team has observed 18 cases of adult chimps adopting young chimps whose mothers had died.

Male chimps, bears, dogs (and almost all mammals besides humans) actually have a bone in their penis.

Wobber now plans to compare social cognition in young chimps bonobos and humans.

of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.

A new study shows that girl chimps are faster to use tools than boys!

And the chimps are like smoke. . . And where there's smoke there's fire.

To the southeast, about 50 miles, an ecosystem known as Masito-Ugalla supports more than 500 chimps.

Brothers of masculine chimps.

Even if we document all of the perhaps 40 million sequence differences between humans and chimps, what do they mean?

Chimps do yawn, and they, like us, respond in kind when shown a computerised avatar indulging in the pastime.

the chimps irises exhibit flecks of green.

One lesson, which may surprise cynics, is that humans are more peaceful than chimps.

Hence our close relation to, but not evolution from, modern day chimps.

They don't kill each other, like chimps do. They like French kissing and oral sex and they sleep in a nest.

Over time, these killings resulted in the Ngogo chimps increasing their home territory by 22 percent.

The park is home to an estimated 700 chimps . Normally when people come crashing through the trees, chimps scatter.

A sharp memory could prove useful to chimps in the wild.

It was found that chimps carry the virus mortality after 10 to 16 times to upgrade.

At dusk, the chimps nest. It's lovely in the sunset after a hot day.

From that day on, bananas were kept nearby for any curious32 chimps.

Now the chimps were madly in love with money.

First, some digits were omitted, which didn't faze the chimps.

The infection in chimps is more recent so they haven't adapted.

This is human versus chimps, the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps.

But there are questions that remain, such as how the virus developed in chimps before it jumped to humans.

To our great surprise the chimp can play video games ! It's really surprising know that chimps and human are genetically similar .

That may have something to do with why we consider ourselves smarter than chimps.

In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent.

Chimps and other apes do it, as do bears.

Humans can talk. Chimps can't.

Chimps couldn't use language, after all.

Take, for example, the case of rutting stags or fighting chimps and you get the generally aggressive idea.

The difference of DNA between chimps and us is merely 1. 2%.

Chimps have 24 pairs of chromosomes, and humans 23, but this is not an absolute barrier to breeding.

Chimps not only use tools but make them.

By comparison, some 25, 000 gorillas and 21, 000 chimps were concentrated in Africa alone.

Well, that is why we test it on chimps, . . . isn't it?

For example, there are groups of chimps in the wild who all use stones to break open nuts for food.

But on the other hand if the chimps just sit around doing nothing, that's not good either.

Why do you think Jane Goodall went to Africa to study chimps rather than to a university?

Do you think it is important t to study chimps in the wild rather than in a zoo?

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Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. (P2)

Such a large catch is rare for Gombe's chimpanzees, which usually target small monkeys, Ruoso said. (See more photos of Gombe chimps. )

now experts say they have direct evidence to confirm that the human virus came from chimps

Chimps are our nearest evolutionary relatives

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Young Female Chimps Cradle Stick-Toys like Dolls

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Chimps peer in a mirror

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When Humans and Chimps Split

Saga of the lab chimps

Michael K. Nichols Congo Chimps, Republic of the Congo, 2000

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Which do you like better, chimps or humans? Michael Boshears PALMER, ALASKA

Why do you think Jane Goodall went to Africa to study chimps rather than to