Chimpanzee Studies

For chimpanzees, the rump says it all. A recent experiment found the chimps know other chimps by their rear ends.  

About 6 million years ago, what we now call Chimpanzees, and what we call ‘human’ ancestors, diverged. Chimps went there way, and we went in our own direction. The split led to various, obvious differences. Chimps are covered in hair, humans much less so. A chimp’s brain is about one-third...  

An appeal has started to find a new home for two elderly chimpanzees from an animal park in Essex.  

"I do see this will be absolutely fabulous for chimpanzees, you must very proud of what you have in Australia," Dr Goodall said to the crowd. ...  

Primatologists Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, tested how well ...  

An appeal to have two chimpanzees transferred to a new home in Spain has begun after their animal park in Cambridge closed. The BBC is not responsible for ...  

A MAJOR redevelopment of the Werribee Open Range Zoo will see animal numbers triple and the creation of an African jungle with gorillas and chimpanzees.  

Watch your backsides, because chimps are too. They can identify a face by recognizing the rump! From New Scientist: Chimps can match up the faces of group members with photos of their behinds. The ability, researchers say, shows that chimps carry around mental representations with “whole body...  

During the study, primatologists Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny of the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre at Emory University in Atlanta, ...  

For primate researcher Toshisada Nishida, observation is everything. Since his graduate school days in 1965, Nishida, 67, has set his eyes on wild chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains in eastern Tanzania, ...  

BOSTON, Oct 06, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- "A return to the use of chimpanzees in AIDS research and vaccine development is without ...  

Recent work suggests that chimpanzees will help human experimenters by handing them out of reach objects. Our study found that capuchin monkeys, ...  

Seven chimpanzees get their first taste of the outdoors. The chimps range in age from 25 to 35 years old, and they have spent their entire lives in small ...  

"If these chimpanzees are actually motivated by empathy to console victims of aggression, they must first of all be able to recognise that the victim is ...  

The concept is an interesting one; chimpanzees are the great ape most closely related to humans. They are also the most violent of the ape species as well ...