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| | Talking With Chimps |
 | | Many researchers feel that chimps may be so much like humans that they may be able to understand and communicate with us using a language that we could understand. | | | The Kellogg's compared the chimp's development with that of their newborn son with the intention of determining how much of human language is derived from heredity and how much is derived from education. | | | Although the verdict is still out on how much a chimp understands what is being said versus how much it is mimicking its trainer, it does seem very apparent that the chimps do have some skills that we previously did not believe they had. |
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| | Are Chimps 98.5% Human? - Does God Exist? - MayJun01 |
| | Chimps do well when tested for their IQ with numbers well into the human intelligence range. | | | The media likes to use data like this to claim that chimps are nearly human and that humans are just smart chimps. | | | Neither the human nor the chimp genome has been completed to the point where any meaningful comparisons can be made. |
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH Chimps take cooking tips |
| | Unlike Linda, the other chimps have no practical need to prepare their food. | | | Dr Goodall said that chimps could often be observed learning new tricks from each other. | | | However, primatologist Dr Samuel Fernández Carriba at Autonoma University, Madrid, who has been observing the chimps, says there is a difference between getting hold of food and "transforming it the human way". |
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| | Kohler's Work on Insight Learning |
| | The theme common to each of these attempts is that, to all appearances, the chimps were solving the problem by a kind of cognitive trial and error, as if they were experimenting in their minds before manipulating the tools. | | | Second, whereas the food remained visible in the dog and cat experiments, in the chimp test the food was tossed out the window (after which the window was shut) and fell out of sight. | | | The earlier experiments that psychologists had run on dogs and cats differed from Kohler's experiments on chimps in two important ways. |
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| | Adopt-a-Chimp - Main Page |
| | No longer confined to tiny cages or subjected to invasive experiments, the chimps now delight in the simple pleasures of life: sunshine and fresh air on their faces, room to play and rest, plenty of special treats to eat, and new things to discover. | | | Retired from laboratory research in 1997, the chimps who call our sanctuary home have been given the chance to live and relax in peace. | | | As you explore this Web site you'll learn about the chimps, view images of the sanctuary and discover how rewarding and affordable "adopting" can be. |
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| | CreationEvolutionDesign |
| | To test how altruistic chimps are, Silk and her colleagues studied the behaviour of two separate groups of chimps in captivity. | | | Also, it would seem likely that in the wild, what seems to be altruistic behaviour in chimps and in other animals, may in fact be towards their relatives. | | | But other researchers said that captive chimps may be less socially inclined. |
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| | Science News: Chimps Employ Culture to Branch Out - research on chimpanzee culture - Brief Article |
| | Chimps' cultural affinity with humans has a particular poignancy, Whiten says. | | | Other than humans, only chimps show a documented penchant for passing on styles of tool use, grooming, and other behaviors through teaching and imitation, contends a group of researchers led by Andrew Whiten of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. | | | Careful review of studies yielded 39 such behaviors that were potentially available to all the communities. |
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| | The Family of Chimps |
| | One begins to sense what passes within the minds of these animals and becomes aware that psychological processes are taking place inside them, of which we have thought too long to own the monopoly. | | | "The Family of Chimps" gives much more than a survey of the behaviour of this ape-species, related closest to man. It helps the audience to observe and in doing so to obtain insight in the way chimps solve their daily problems. | | | The wonderful product "The Family of Chimps" presents the apes as real personalities, capturing chimpanzee social intelligence as no documentary has ever done before. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Chimps are human, gene study implies |
| | The closeness of relationship between chimps and humans has become an important issue outside taxonomy, becoming part of the debate over the use of chimps in laboratory experiments and over their conservation in the wild. | | | Traditionally chimps are classified with the other great apes, gorillas and orangutans, in the family Pongidae, separated from the human family Hominidae. | | | Among these, he found that 99.4 percent were identical in humans and chimps. |
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| | Discovery Channel Special Watches OSU Chimps Learn To Read |
| | Earlier work with her other chimps showed Boysen that the animals are able to detect whether another primate is aware of a possible, specific threat or reward. | | | While Boysen's work with nine other chimps over the years made great strides, part of the process of acculturating the animals to the research tasks has made testing this hypothesis difficult. | | | "But chimps won't be able to express their ideas or thoughts in as sophisticated a manner as children will eventually be able to do. |
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| | Evolution: Library: Chimps And Bonobos |
| | One theory suggests that a small change in the availability of food may have encouraged the evolution of today's chimp and bonobo societies. | | | Infanticidal individuals remove potential competitors to their own offspring, and the mother, without an infant to care for, will become available for mating again much sooner. | | | Their environments seem to be quite similar today. |
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| | Can Primates Talk? - alphaDictionary * Free English Online Dictionary |
| | Perhaps the most troubling outcome of the chimp and gorilla research is the lack of 'Jabberwocky' evidence: none of the trained animals seem to assimilate grammatical morphemes. | | | Chimps and gorillas can easily learn up to 120 different arbitrary symbols if taught those signs using conventional reinforcement techniques. | | | The problem is that we have no way of measuring the chimp's intent. |
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| | The Paula Gordon Show |
| | Professor de Waal describes his ãreciprocityä research with chimps and compares chimp behavior to humans. | | | He describes Darwinâs sophisticated attitude toward other primates and relates it to his own extensive research on ãprimate reconciliation.ä Suggesting humans' ãrationalä behavior has been overestimated, Professor de Waal he describes how the ãrationalä can never be separated from emotions or context. | | | The way humans have invaded all kinds of climates demonstrates how extremely adaptive humans are. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Yawning is catching in chimps |
| | The discovery bolsters the idea that chimps are able to understand their own and others' state of mind. | | | In research on people, those subjects that perform contagious yawning also recognise images of their own faces and are better at inferring what other people are thinking from their faces. | | | Chimpanzees yawn in response to seeing other chimps yawn, reveals a new study. |
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| | PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Chimps R Us:What Are They Thinking |
| | Boysen has taught chimps to count and to subtract and she documented their ability to think abstractly. | | | Among her students is 17-year-old Sheeba, who, in Boysen's care since the age of two, has experience with a wide variety of cognitive tasks. | | | Boysen tests chimps' ability to think abstractly; can they figure out what another chimp is thinking? |
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| | Can Chimps Talk? - Forbes.com |
| | The sounds made by chimpanzees seemed to be little more than emotional outbursts without much meaning or intention. | | | Slocombe and Zuberbuhler then ran an experiment to see if the chimps could tell the difference too. | | | The tough part comes in figuring out what all the ruckus means. |
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| | Boffins seek human chimps The Register |
| | Our advice to those who need to address the animal within is this: if you're having a hard time with a work colleague, punch him; if you're being bullied at work, punch someone; and if your boss is giving you grief, bare your buttocks in a display of submission. | | | Should, however, this very silly idea appeal, then you can be one of 100+ volunteers the RZL wants to take part in its "chimp chatter" experiment. | | | As for us, we don't think there's much Vulture Central could learn from chimps. |
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| | Morning Edition: Orangutans Outsmart Chimps? |
| | Primatologist Sarah Boysen of Ohio State University says she finds the orangutan experiment a little shaky, and says it certainly doesn't show that orangutans are smarter than chimps. | | | Shumaker says his experiment, described in this month's Journal of Comparative Psychology, suggests that the kind of social life a species leads -- solitary versus in a group for example -- can shape its mental abilities. | | | "I think that what it is about orangutan social structure that helps them do this task is simply that they don't have to aggressively compete for food with other orangs the way that chimps do, for example." |
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| | Wired News: Humans, Chimps Think Different |
| | Geschwind and his colleagues found that while the studies they compiled may have shown disparate conclusions individually, taken together the research came to some similar conclusions. | | | That proves that the genetic differences are specific to the brain, and likely are associated with our higher cognitive function, Geschwind said. | | | They do have one theory Geschwind said: "It may be that the human brain is a like a V-8 or a V-12 and the chimp brain is a V-4." |
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| | Tool Making Chimps |
| | Jane Goodall and Wolfgang Kohler are two scientists who studied tool making and use among chimps. | | | Until then, humans were thought to be the only animals to make tools in nature. | | | Jane Goodall's discovery opened a new debate about what it meant to be a human being. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Friendship runs shallow in captive chimps |
| | He argues that captive chimps may be socially impoverished, and so fail to behave naturally. | | | The chimps in Silk’s experiment were less inclined towards generosity. | | | In a new behavioural study, chimps failed to lend a helping hand to unrelated animals from their own social group — even though they would have suffered no inconvenience by doing so. |
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| | There seem to be "cultural" differences between groups of chimpanzees in the variety of food taken and the techniques for processing it. | | | There is also other behaviour which would lead someone to recognize the fact that chimpanzees are our closest relative. | | | Chimps live in small, stable groups (called communities or unit groups) of about 40-60 chimps. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Birthday party turns bloody when chimps attack |
| | Davis was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. | | | The hospital would not release any information on his condition. | | | It will be crucial to our investigation how they got out." |
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| | Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Family Tree, Study Says |
| | Summary In a controversial new study, researchers argue that the similarities between chimpanzee and humans are so great that chimps should be re-grouped with humans on the tree of life. | | | "Moving chimps into the human genus might help us to realize our very great likeness, and therefore treasure more and treat humanely our closest relative," he said. | | | Historical classification schemes, based on physical similarities such as bones, argued that chimps and gorillas were each other's closest relatives, and that both were closely related to orangutans to the exclusion of humans. |
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| | The King of Chimp Exploitation - Fredrick Coulston |
| | But biomedical researchers are also concerned about the concentration of such a large fraction of the 1,200 research chimps in the United States in the hands of a single person. | | | Coulston claims he would be doing NYU and the nation a favor by taking over NYU’s Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates, or LEMSIP. | | | Nobody in his right mind would want to be responsible for a colony of research chimpanzees. |
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| | DNA Similarity of Humans and Chimps - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | DNA Similarity of Humans and Chimps - ChristianAnswers.Net | | | Would it mean that humans could have 'evolved' from a common ancestor with chimps? | | | Where did the "97% similarity" come from then? |
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| | CNN.com - Report: chimps used simple tools 5 million years ago - May 23, 2002 |
| | Scientists will keep studying modern chimpanzees to compare their behavior with ancient chimps. | | | The study represents a rare departure for archaeologists, whose work almost always focuses on humans and their immediate ancestors. | | | The scientists said they will keep observating the habits of modern chimps in Tai National Park -- including their use of stone tools -- for evidence of change in chimp behavior since the five million-year-old stone tools were used. |
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| | The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees |
| | In the 1970's, Richard Wrangham conducted the first systematic study of chimpanzee behavioral ecology at Gombe and concluded that predation by chimps was nutritionally based, but that some aspects of the behavior were not well explained by nutritional needs alone (Wrangham 1975). | | | At Tai, Christophe Boesch has documented highly cooperative hunting behavior by the chimpanzees there, and meat-sharing behavior after a kill that rewards those chimps who participated in the hunt. | | | In his study of Gombe chimpanzee predatory behavior in the 1960's, Geza Teleki considered hunting to have a strong social basis (Teleki 1973). |
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| | CNN.com - Chimps to have retirement home in U.S. - Dec. 26, 2003 |
| | About 1,600 chimps now live in the United States, most in drug and infectious disease research labs, but they lost their research value. | | | "They haven't had the stimulation they need to grow socially, and that will be part of what they'll need to learn at Chimp Haven." | | | A chimp is rarely useful to scientists if it's already undergone medical tests or been injected with a disease or drug. |
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| | Eating Apes: CHAPTER ONE |
| | Meanwhile (so rumor has it), the human baby, Donald, started making chimp noises, and the parents, alarmed at this unanticipated reversal, terminated their experiment. | | | Although Loulis is an active member of the chimpanzee linguistic community, he has never been taught sign language by humans. | | | You are on one side of the bars, the chimps and bonobos on the other side, simply because those apes lack a little more than 1 percent of the requisite genes to be treated like humans. |
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| | Some chimps in the Kibale Forest engage in a stylized form of grooming called |
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| | Like humans, some chimps mimic social norms in parenting |
| | Researchers have long assumed that mother-infant mutual gaze, or the act of a mother looking into her baby's eyes and the baby staring back at her, was unique to human development. | | | Like humans, some chimps mimic social norms in parenting | | | Read our privacy statement and Terms of Use |
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH US activists demand lawyers for chimps |
| | Frankie Trull of the US National Association for Biomedical Research says the chimpanzee example is the "beginning of a slippery slope". | | | A minimum level of autonomy is sufficient to justify the basic legal right to bodily integrity | | | Among the rights chimps might be granted are the right to life, the right to freedom and the right to freedom from torture. |
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| | !Chimps, Incorporated, Welcome to our website, dedicated to chimpanzee preservation, chimps, chimp conservation, ... |
| | CHIMPS, INC. is truly a "way to make contact..." To keep our friends up to date we plan to keep this site updated with news and information about our organization. | | | ith your help, not only could we continue providing the best possible care for our chimps, but we will be able to set yet another example and ultimately aid other chimpanzees who are in dire need. | | | Rose, Katia and Alfonz are their names and we are so happy to have them living with us as well. |
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| | MORE LIKE A MAN THAN AN APE? |
| | WSU researchers say chimps, humans so alike the animals are our closest relation | | | The findings also provide a solid foundation for further study of the evolution of the human brain, Goodman said. | | | There is no official board in charge of placing animals in their various genera, and in some cases, alternative classifications are available. |
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| | BBC - Science & Nature - Articles - Chimps at risk from their human cousins |
| | BBC - Science and Nature - Articles - Chimps at risk from their human cousins | | | What a dilemma: buying such a sad little orphan may encourage the capture and sale of live animals. | | | It was dark, and the stalls were closed, but the little chimp was still there, tied up alone in his cage. |
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| | KarlAmmann.com - Documents - The Bondo Mystery Ape |
| | I have little doubt that sometimes soon we will be able to look at images of what are very very big chimpanzees doing there thing in the forests of Bili and Bondo. | | | But within that cluster no clear partitioning of schweinfurthii versus troglodytes. | | | The results of some of the initial mt DNA analysis was that we were looking at a chimp population which grouped nicely with the schweinfurthii subspecies but also with some individuals of the further west living Ptt subspecies. |
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| | San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Chimpanzee |
| | Chimps use body language, facial expressions, hand-clapping, grooming, and kissing to communicate within their community. | | | Chimps are very intelligent and can be trained by humans to perform a variety of tasks. | | | Because they are so smart, chimps have been involved in many scientific studies, and unfortunately some people keep them as pets. |
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| | Chimps hand over new clue to brain |
| | Whether the chimps used their right or left hands to handle their treats had much more to do with asymmetries in the motor control parts of their brains than with the language areas; lefties had larger movement centers on the right. | | | The chimp studies don't explain why people are left-handed. | | | Another study at Yerkes determined that chimps in general have more of the asymmetries found in people's brains than previously thought, backing up the results about left-handedness. |
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| | Indeed, the need to maintain social position and social knowlege may be an impetus for the evolution of larger brains in humans. | | | Primate social behaviour Were chimps the first socialists? |
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| | SaveTheChimps.org |
| | The Sanctuary environment was carefully designed to nurture and stimulate these sensitive and complex primates by creating a secure and enriching environment, including the construction of a three-acre island on which to safely express natural behaviors without human interference. | | | The vision of Save the Chimps was -- and remains -- to create a Sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees can live out their lives without the threat of ever returning to a laboratory. | | | By introducing the chimps to one another and allowing them to form family units, while still in New Mexico awaiting completion of the islands and facilities in Florida, their transition to the Islands in the Sun will be much faster and smoother. |
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| | CBBC Newsround Animals Zoo tries to stop chimps smoking |
| | It's thought a chimp called Charlie picked up the harmful habit after growing up in a US circus and copying visitors who tossed him cigarettes. | | | Smoking cigarettes can cause lots of diseases like cancer, and lung problems. | | | It can be funny when animals copy the way humans act, but chimps in a zoo in South Africa are harming their health by aping a nasty habit - smoking. |
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| | Realbeer.com: Beer News: Drunken chimps threaten humans |
| | Once the chimps come across a sugarcane plantation, for example, they tend to abandon the park and, as a result, come into conflict with the local communities," says the report. | | | These incidents happened over several years, and Debby Cox, the director of the institute, suggested that the aggressive behavior of the chimps was caused by increased proximity between the animals and humans. | | | The officials point out that a chimp cannot take on a grown man. All the babies they have attacked have been either unaccompanied, or are in in the company of other children. |
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| | The Scientist :: Chimps are not like humans , May 27, 2004 |
| | There's nothing that major that separates humans from chimpanzees," said Wildman, who was not involved in the study. | | | The Scientist :: Chimps are not like humans, May 27, 2004 | | | Wildman said that his previous comparison between a greater series of primates—humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and old world monkeys—showed that while many important changes in human evolution occurred after humans and chimps last shared a common ancestor, many of them also occurred before that divergence. |
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| | Adult Learning Activities California Distance Learning Project |
| | It says someone needs to take care of the 1,500 chimps. | | | Some people do not want chimps to be used for research. | | | Many chimpanzees have been bred for AIDS research. |
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| | Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust & Adoption Scheme |
| | Since 1969, we have been working to give orphaned chimpanzees the opportunity to grow up free and independent in their natural environment, rather than leaving them to their all too frequent fates as sad captives in a human world, or worse, as substitute humans in a laboratory. | | | The project was initially established by Stella Marsden, nee Brewer, as a solution for a group of chimps confiscated from hunters and traders by the Gambian wildlife authorities. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Family matters |
| | On the strength of this, Goodman says: think again, humans. | | | This week, scientists claimed that chimps are so close to mankind that they should be reclassified as practically human. | | | Separate groups of chimpanzees have different ways of doing things, and pass these ways on through the generations: that is, chimpanzees have culture, just as humans have culture. |
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| | USATODAY.com - You just can't go wrong with a chimp |
| | Watching chimps doing silly things in ads gives humans "permission" to laugh at themselves, says Renee Fraser, an advertising psychologist and founder of Fraser Communications. | | | And each chimp typically comes with a trainer — for another $320, or so, per day, says Denise Sanders, a trainer at Bob Dunn's Animal Services in Sylmar, Calif. She trained the four chimps that appear in the CareerBuilder.com ads. | | | "How many times do you get up close and personal with a chimpanzee?" poses Creech, who at one point was almost attacked by one of the older chimps. |
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| | This is the first evidence, however, that suggests they may have made humans what they are today. | | | The discovery that human-specific retroviruses emerged at the same time other researchers believe humans and chimps diverged was startling. | | | ATHENS, Ga. — Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections called human endogenous retroviruses make up a substantial part of the human genome. |
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