Monkey is nuts for tiger cubs
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online
ANJANA the chimp is proving to be a doting foster mum – to her white TIGER cubs. These amazing new pictures show the motherly monkey has not been driven bananas by the playful cubs who she lovingly bottle feeds.
Primate Intelligence
Source: associatedcontent.com
The primate intelligence is perhaps the most famed explored subject, not to mention a controversial one at that. The measure of brain magnitude used depends upon assumptions about the relative importance of different factors, and different measures.
Hugging benefits fractious chimps
Source: BBC News
If you have just had a big falling out with a colleague, there is nothing better than the comforting and consoling arm of a good friend.
Why is yawning contagious?
Source: BBC News
Rather than being a precursor to sleep, yawning is designed to keep us awake, say US researchers. But why does seeing someone else yawn make you to do the same?
Chimpanzees Beat Humans in Memory Test
Source:
Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.
So many chimps on TV, so few in the wild
Source: Chicago Tribune
Primatologists reported Thursday in the journal Science that only 66 percent of visitors to Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago thought chimps were endangered.
Who's Bad? Chimps Figure It Out By Observation
Source: Science Daily
A George Washington University research team investigated the ability of chimps to make character judgements about others based on observed social interactions. They further investigated whether inferred reputation could be transferred to novel situations.
Chimpanzee Autarky
Source: plosone.org
Although chimpanzees do engage in noncostly barter, in which otherwise value-less tokens are exchanged for food, this lack of risk is not typical of human barter.
Chimpanzees need role models, too
Source: Telegraph
The discovery was made in a series of experiments that compared their performance with that of Scottish children in research that once again underlines the continuity between human characteristics and those of our closest relatives.
Huckabee's rapid assent ???? Where??? Only in the minds of the illiterate does that concept take a hold....Anyone that has a computer & knows what it's true purpose is for, sees through that line of B.S. in a heart beat.
Chimps at forefront of drug research
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Ugandan and French scientists have for months been observing the behaviour of a group of chimpanzees whose uncanny aptitude for self-medication could help their human cousins discover new drugs.
My future book project is "Divine Primates: How Human Nature Has Gotten Us Into - And Can Help Get Us Out Of - Our Global Crises."
Chimps have Better Memory than Humans.
Source: the Mail online
In a finding that could prove hard to forget, scientists have shown that chimps have better memories than people. Research shows that young chimps are blessed with photographic memories, allowing them to remember patterns and sequences with amazing accuracy.
Chimps exaggerate calls for help
Source: BBC News
Chimpanzees under attack exaggerate their screams to get help from higher ranking group members, researchers from Fife have discovered