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Scientists have documented what appear to be the first-ever lethal chimpanzee attacks against gorillas, according to a new study. Chimps documented attacking and killing gorillas in the wild for ...
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Just before 8 o’clock on a snowy Wednesday morning, deep in a maze of doors and steel fencing in the basement of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a 30-year-old gorilla named Mokolo is getting a ...
Save the Chimps’ origins trace back to the plight of chimpanzees “retiring” from the U.S. space program’s Mercury Project — many were sent to a biomedical lab, where they were subjected ...
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and ...
[1] [2] "The apes nest on the ground like gorillas, but they have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees", according to a 2003 National Geographic article. [ 1 ] Scientists soon determined they were common chimpanzees , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and part of a larger contiguous population stretching throughout that part of northern Congo.
The human and chimpanzee evolutionary lineages split about 6.9 million to 9 million years ago, according to research published in June. Studying chimpanzee behavior may offer insight into our own ...
He saw similarities between this environment and the habitat of the chimpanzees and gorillas. He had been trying to find observers since 1946. In 1956, he sent his secretary, Rosalie Osborn, to Mount Muhabura in Uganda to "help habituate" gorillas, [5] but she returned to England after four months. Leakey was considering taking the job himself ...