News Blog: Posts tagged Earth
CNET News - Thanks to Google Earth, the Jane Goodall Institute now has a “geoblog” that’s “a soap opera for wild chimpanzees.” Hanke said near the end of the event that footage of the conference will later be uploaded to the Google-owned YouTube video-sharing
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The Crop Raiders of Bossou
Science Now - For chimpanzees living next to the West African village of Bossou, Guinea, scoring papayas can also mean scoring a mate. That’s one conclusion of a 3-year study that followed Bossou’s adult males as they staged daring raids on crops and then used the
Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org
Terraforming by the Numbers
Wired - Of course, “animals can’t count, except chimpanzees and maybe other primates,” says neurobiologist and zoologist Harald Wolf, senior author of the study, published in Science . “Ants integrate stride length and stride number.” In other words, they
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