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Chimpanzees help trace evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 27 (ANI): In a study conducted by a group of researchers, one of the most promising theories for the evolution of human speech has finally received support from chimpanzee communication.
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Researchers' take on left-brain might not be right, study explains
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 16 (ANI): The long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique has now been challenged by scientists. The team found the same asymmetry pattern in chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
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Chimps held captive for experiments given new lease of life
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Georgia [USA], Feb 9 (ANI): A video of chimps that were held captive for research experiments being set free out in the open has melted several hearts on the internet.
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ED enables Kolkata Zoo to retain 7 smuggled wildlife animals
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday enabled Kolkata Zoo to retain three chimpanzees and four marmosets that were among the smuggled animals' category.
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AI to help identify chimpanzee faces in the wild
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 8 (ANI): New AI software will now help wildlife conservationists to recognise individual faces of chimpanzees further helping them by saving time and resources, claim researchers.
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Chimpanzees may adapt to human developed habitats better than natural one:
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Chimpanzees may adapt to human developed habitats better than their natural one. However, researchers emphasized that their survival is still threatened.
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BBC presenter fired after posting picture of chimpanzee with royal baby tw
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 9 (ANI): Danny Baker, the BBC presenter, was sacked after he tweeted a picture of a couple holding hands of a chimpanzee, captioning it: "Royal Baby leaves hospital."
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Here’s how the brain evolved
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Don’t we all, at some point or the other, wonder where does our ‘humanness’ come from?
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Bonobos more closely linked to us than chimps?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): Scientists have found that the muscular system of bonobos - a rare great ape species with a black face and black hair - may be more closely linked anatomically to the human ancestors than common chimpanzees.
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Wild chimps 'surprisingly' live longer!
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 21 (ANI): Our close primate relatives, chimpanzees, have longer life span, if kept under the right ecological conditions.
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Dogs prefer to share their food with friends
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 29 (ANI): Sharing is caring! A new study reveals that like humans, rats, and chimpanzees, dogs also share their food with thier kind, but prefer their friends more.
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Male chimps spends time in grooming offspring: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Nov. 9(ANI): A recent study has found that male chimpanzees are more concerned about their own offspring than previously thought.
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