Chimpanzees who’ve spent their entire lives in biomedical research facilities go outside and see the sky for the very first time at the Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana.
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Are Chimpanzees Cultural?
The first video from new The Advanced Apes animated YouTube channel!
in-the-head-of-an-anthropologist:
Dental care
Belle removes, with the help of a stick, a loose tooth in Bandit. Shadow is supervising. (Delta Primate Center.)
Moerman, Daniel (2002). Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 55.
Bonobos Predisposed to Show Sensitivity to Others
Jan. 30, 2013 — Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos, which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to humans and chimpanzees. This finding provides key evolutionary insight into how critical social skills may develop in humans.
Family of bonobos caring for each other. (Credit: © itsallgood / Fotolia)
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Primate Win: USA to Retire Research Chimpanzees
National Institute of Health: almost all of the 451 chimpanzees owned or supported by the National Institutes of Health that are now at research facilities should be permanently retired from research and moved to sanctuaries, with planning for the move to start…
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A gorilla named Kidogo balances on a rope at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany
Picture: EPA/Magnus Neuhaus (via Animal pictures of the week: 4 January 2013 - Telegraph)
This needs to be meme-ified
Bonobos Catch Yawns from Friends
For bonobos, yawning is contagious, but only between friends.
Yawns spread more easily between family and close friends, and from high-status monkeys to those lower on the totem pole, according to a study published online in the journal PLoS ONE. This pattern of social yawning mimics one found in humans and suggests infectious yawning is a byproduct of empathy, which coordinates emotions in a group.
“It underlines that the mechanism of yawn contagion in the two species is the same,” said study co-author Elisabetta Palagi, a primate researcher at the University of Pisa in Italy. “One of the possible functions of yawn contagion is to synchronize individuals of a social group. In humans, yawn contagion is extremely important but just between people who share strong bonds.”
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primate launches attack on stray dog. more pics and brief article here
The anatomy of the face of an Orangutan
From Untersuchungen über die Gesichtsmuskulatur der Primaten (Studies on the facial muscles of Primates)
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“look kid, i knew jane goodall… and your no jane goodall.”
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