An orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Liverpool has performed a groundbreaking operation on a chimp in Cameroon to correct a deformity more commonly seen in dogs. The three year-old chimp called ...
Matthew, a 26-year-old chimp, is headed to court in Europe as part of a human effort to classify him as a person.
... way. And it works. Researchers studying people's closest genetic relatives found that stress was reduced in chimps that were victims of aggression if a third chimp stepped in to offer consolation.
... of St Andrews scientists suggests that female chimps keep quiet during sex so that ... St Andrews researchers observed the behaviour of chimps in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, in collaboration with Tobias ...
... in the inflammatory response - APOL1, APOL4, CARD18, IL1F7, IL1F8 - are completely deleted from chimp genome. In humans, APOL1 is involved in resistance to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, ...
... that chimpanzees, like humans, are adept at recognizing their peers. "We knew [from behavioral studies] that chimps and humans process faces similarly," Parr said. "We wondered whether similar brain ...
... . The study -- the first to examine brain activity in chimpanzees after they attempt to match fellow chimps' faces -- offers new insight into the origin of face recognition in humans, the researchers ...
A NASA astronaut is packing some space chimp chocolate bars for a space station trip.
... Freud, who weighed 44.8 kg (98.6 lbs.), used a combination of the two strategies. (The average male chimp in Gombe weighs about 39 kg (85.8 lbs.).
The findings are reported in the February issue of ...
The alleged use of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax before a recent chimp attack raises questions about increased use of drugs among more common pets.
... always calm when collecting or manufacturing his ammunition.
Osvath said he thinks wild chimps in general, as well as other animals, probably have the planning ability demonstrated by the individual ...
Footage reveals how chimps armed with clubs plunder beehives for honey.
... Walker argues that humans may lack the strength of chimps because our nervous systems exert more control ... MacLarnon showed that, relative to body mass, chimps have much less grey matter in their spinal ...
Officers shot and killed a rampaging chimpanzee in a rural area and then found a squalid, unlicensed puppy mill in the chimp owners' home, officials said.
Wild male chimps that share their monkey meat with females double their chances of having sex with those females, a new study says.
