... from molecular, microscopic and epidemiological investigations that demonstrate how the chimpanzees living at Mahale Mountains National Park ... scientists and tourists and the viruses that are threatening the endangered chimpanzee population. Scientific establishment of that linkage could affect ...
... for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig Germany, had shown that chimpanzees at the site were killed by respiratory viruses repeatedly ... of play ontogeny. It also has important implications for the conservation of chimpanzees, which are classed as Endangered by the World Conservation Union ...
... as another major driver. New research on chimpanzees suggests that this effect of social connectivity on disease ... may long predate attendance of children at schools, with chimpanzee infant mortality rates cycling in phase ...
... . In this study, researchers tested this question for wild chimpanzees by using novel non-invasive methods. Analyzing ... determine where the highest rates of human–chimpanzee interactions occur. This may predict what other pathogens ...
Chimpanzees often kiss, cuddle and groom the victim of aggression within a group
... Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "Since most threats to chimpanzee populations are derived from human activities such as hunting ... that will probably have disastrous consequences for the last vestiges of chimpanzees in Côte d'Ivoire. "The comparisons ...
... of different types of care for infant chimpanzees on cognition, researchers found chimpanzees who were given extra emotionally ... advanced than human infants. Humans overtake chimpanzees in development terms as they grow older but the study ...
... within a particular species of yeast than there are between humans and chimpanzees. The DNA of individual yeast organisms can vary ... per cent difference between the DNA of humans and chimpanzees. Another interesting observation is that individual organisms ...
... the existence of the largest remaining continuous population of chimpanzees in the world. This conclusion is based on observations made ...
... . However, there has been little evidence in both humans and chimpanzees to support it. In recent research conducted in the Ta ... add to the ever-growing evidence suggesting that chimpanzees can think in the past and the future and that this influences their present ...
Chimpanzees are the closest cousins to humans, yet human activity could send our primate kin to extinction.
... . To investigate the diversity of Plasmodium parasites circulating in chimpanzees in Africa, the team collected blood from 19 ... ' genomes. Only one species, P. reichenowi, infecting chimpanzees, was previously known as a sister lineage of P ...
LEIPZIG, Germany, June 9 (UPI) -- Scientists who mapped fruit trees and tracked chimpanzees in Ivory Coast say the animals can remember the locations of thousands of trees.
... understanding of the virus that will benefit both humans and chimpanzees," said Jane Goodall, whose focus has shifted ... to conduct the first post-mortem exam of a chimpanzee that died from AIDS. "From a scientific perspective, it is fascinating ...
... . However the variation in techniques and the relationship between the ants and the chimpanzees has perplexed scientists for decades. "In other studies, based ... were similar to other recorded tools, this research suggests that chimpanzees are selecting tools depending on the characteristics of the ant ...
