Quad-Cities Times - Her work in Senegal brought one of most important scientific studies of the year _ that chimpanzees habitually use tools to hunt other vertebrates. University President Gregory Geoffroy said the relationship with the ape trust will enhance the school

Chimps are better than kids at many things, just not math
Island Packet Online - Throughout the study, researchers a group of 106 chimpanzees, 32 orangutans and 105 toddlers or as its known around town, the Senate (rim shot) in an attempt to determine which abilities are distinctly human. Human children are not overall

Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Gorillas, large family of chimpanzees. Many African hoofed animals, some endangered. Prairie dog town. Excellent collection of lemurs. Indoor/outdoor Penguin and Puffin Coast exhibit. Unlike the others: Glass-sided hippo swimming hole. Information: 800
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Film with promise wins at Toronto
News.com.au - The award positions the fim as an early Oscar favourite. The festival’s Cadillac People’s Choice Award, voted on by Nigerian banks told to stop using pretty wome 4. Prison inmates throw sausage temper tantrum 5. Lady chimpanzees love forbidden
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Genome 2.0
Science News - What’s more, the changes that distinguish human brains from those of chimpanzees and other apes could be due in part to evolutionary changes in RNAs that don’t encode proteins. A group led by Katherine S. Pollard of the University of California
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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
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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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