• Experimental and observational research suggests red colobus (Piliocolobus badius) associate with Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire in response to seasonally shifting predation pressure from chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). (mysciencework.com)
  • Chimpanzees exhibit the greatest number of traditions outside of the human species, across foraging, tool use and social behaviours, with each chimpanzee group distinguished by their own particular cultural profile 11 . (nature.com)
  • Marshall-Pescini and Whiten 16 found that young chimpanzees failed to cumulatively modify their foraging efforts by building on their exisiting behaviours despite witnessing a more productive solution. (nature.com)
  • Chimpanzees are more outgoing than either gorillas or orangutans because they are more active. (animalplanetory.com)
  • The German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach classified the chimpanzee as Simia troglodytes by 1775. (wikipedia.org)
  • We found limited evidence showing Diana monkeys make more than ephemeral behavioral changes in response to comingling with red colobus during chimpanzees' hunting season (September-November). (mysciencework.com)
  • We find little evidence indicating Diana monkeys minimize behaviors that increase risk of predation from chimpanzees while associated with red colobus during the season when chimpanzees hunt most often. (mysciencework.com)
  • We compared the toxicokinetics of bisphenol A (BPA) among three animal species: rats, cynomolgus monkeys and chimpanzees. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Rats and monkeys were administered BPA orally or subcutaneously at 10 or 100 mg/kg body weight, while chimpanzees were administered only 10 mg/kg of BPA. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Despite a lack of empirical evidence, captive research chimpanzees have been suggested to display accelerated growth compared to wild animals. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • These results provide empirical evidence highlighting that chimpanzees use objects in diverse ways to communicate with conspecifics and that their use may be shaped by social factors, contributing to our understanding of the evolution of human nonverbal communication, language, and tool use. (springer.com)
  • Here, we first established an inefficient solution to a foraging task in five captive chimpanzee groups ( N = 19). (nature.com)
  • Representative photograph of 1 of the 8 captive adult chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) undergoing general anesthesia for a regularly scheduled annual physical examination between March 2018 and January 2019, showing the medial aspect of the right pelvic limb with an arterial catheter placed in the tibial artery for direct measurement of blood pressure (BP). (avma.org)
  • The typical growth pattern of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) has largely been derived from captive research populations, as methodological and ethical challenges limit assessment of their wild counterparts. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • Another 2017 genetic study suggests ancient gene flow (introgression) between 200 and 550 thousand years ago from the bonobo into the ancestors of central and eastern chimpanzees. (wikipedia.org)
  • The IUCN says that chimpanzee populations have dropped a lot since the 1980s, even though they have one of the largest geographic ranges of the great apes. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Nearly all chimpanzee populations have been recorded using tools, modifying sticks, rocks, grass and leaves and using them for hunting and acquiring honey, termites, ants, nuts and water. (wikipedia.org)
  • Existing chimpanzee populations in West and Central Africa do not overlap with the major human fossil sites in East Africa, but chimpanzee fossils have now been reported from Kenya. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together, these results suggest that growth patterns between African sanctuary, zoological and research facility populations of chimpanzees differ. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • Four subspecies of the chimpanzee have been recognised, with the possibility of a fifth: Central chimpanzee or the tschego (Pan troglodytes troglodytes), found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with about 140,000 individuals existing in the wild. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chimpanzees are divided into four subspecies, based on appearance and distribution. (anthropogeny.org)
  • The chimpanzee and the bonobo are the only species in the genus Pan. (wikipedia.org)
  • The genus name Pan derives from the Greek god, while the specific name troglodytes was taken from the Troglodytae, a mythical race of cave-dwellers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another German naturalist, Lorenz Oken, coined the genus Pan in 1816. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the two species comprising the genus , Pan, having branched from bonobos ~1 million years ago. (anthropogeny.org)
  • The research facilities at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik are part of the normal housing of the orangutans and chimpanzees and allow flexible ways of studying them through dedicated solutions that have research conditions in mind. (lu.se)
  • All zoonotic transfers of primate lentiviruses from species other primate samples were obtained with government approval from than chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys are possible. (cdc.gov)
  • then bonobos split from the common chimpanzee line about 2 million years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • Compared to bonobos, chimpanzees are somewhat larger, more aggressive, and exhibit male social dominance. (anthropogeny.org)
  • This is most striking when we compare our human cultures with those of arguably the second most cultural species, our closest living relative, the chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) 11 . (nature.com)
  • The chimpanzee , or Pan troglodytes , is an ape species most closely related to humans and the bonobo. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Chimpanzees are an endangered species. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Pan troglodytes), also known as simply the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • When its close relative the bonobo was more commonly known as the pygmy chimpanzee, this species was often called the common chimpanzee or the robust chimpanzee. (wikipedia.org)
  • The chimpanzee is listed on the IUCN Red List as an endangered species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wild-born sanctuary chimpanzees may provide a more ecologically valid population from which to infer species-typical growth. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • At 30 kb proximal to the breakpoint in 4q21.3, we identified an as yet unannotated gene, C4orf12, that lacks an homologous counterpart in rodents and is expressed at a 33-fold higher level in human fibroblasts as compared to chimpanzee. (anthropogeny.org)
  • We use scan samples (N = 7025) collected on three Diana monkey groups over 5 years (N = 380 days) to assess differences in diet, activity budget, and strata use in relation to associating with red colobus and chimpanzee hunting seasonality and test for interaction effects between these two variables. (mysciencework.com)
  • Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that Pan is a sister taxon to the human lineage and is humans' closest living relative. (wikipedia.org)
  • You are right in front of our 3,000 square meter green island for our chimpanzees - our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. (serengeti-park.de)
  • Here we investigate the lability of chimpanzees' short-term memories and assess what factors cause forgetting in our closest relatives. (stir.ac.uk)
  • This indicates that both humans and members of the Pan clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene. (wikipedia.org)
  • Karyotypic differences between humans and chimpanzees include nine pericentric inversions, which may have potentiated the parapatric speciation of hominids and chimpanzees 5-6 million years ago. (anthropogeny.org)
  • Comparing chimpanzees' preparatory responses to known and unknown future outcomes. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the growth pattern of male and female sanctuary chimpanzees and compare these data to animals in zoological and research facilities. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • With behavioural flexibility defined as "the continued interest in and acquisition of new solutions to a task, through either innovation or social learning, after already having mastered a previous solution" (p.447 17 ), a lack of such flexibility has been found in several experiments with chimpanzees. (nature.com)
  • I think the intro could still be more focused, setting the stage broadly that there is some controversy over the extent to which chimpanzees might show behavioral flexibility with the work on cumulative culture taking a more tangential role, since it is not the focus of the current study. (peerj.com)
  • Building on these initial reports of communicative object use, the first aim of this study was to explore the use of object actions in chimpanzees and their flexibility across contexts. (springer.com)
  • Chimpanzees have a pronounced social life with several adult females and males and a gendered hierarchy. (serengeti-park.de)
  • Responses of chimpanzees to a recently dead community member at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. (4apes.com)
  • In two experiments, chimpanzees were presented with a target task, which involved remembering a reward location, followed by the presentation of an interference task-requiring the recollection of a different reward location. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Since chimpanzees cannot swim, the natural limitation of the moat is completely sufficient. (serengeti-park.de)
  • Chimpanzees can't swim, but they can walk through water. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Flexible rhythm in chimpanzees' pant hoot vocalizations. (lu.se)
  • The results show that chimpanzees' memories for the location of a reward in a target task were compromised by the presentation of a different food location in an interference task. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Chimpanzees form long-term memories for food locations after limited exposure. (mpg.de)
  • To better understand the evolution of object use, this study explored how objects are used in social interactions in semi-wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ). (springer.com)
  • Critically, the temporal location of the interference task did not significantly affect chimpanzees' performance. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Additionally, these sanctuary data contribute significantly to current understanding of chimpanzee growth. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • Male sanctuary chimpanzees attain body mass maturation at an older age compared to females (13.8 vs 12.4 years), but sex differences were not observed in maturation age for crown-rump length or the growth rates for either measure. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • For instance, Cheetah the chimpanzee, who played Tarzan in movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was said to have lived about 80 years. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Body mass and crown-rump length were obtained from 150 male and 148 female (aged 1-38 years) African sanctuary chimpanzees. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • Body mass regressions were compared to those of 454 male and 623 female chimpanzees (aged 1-40 years) acquired from a centralised zoological database. (cardiffmet.ac.uk)
  • Sky after 30 years: A brief biography of three biomedical research chimpanzees in Japan. (awionline.org)
  • This article describes the strategies employed by Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan to integrate 3 retired chimpanzees - who each spent 30 years singly housed in a biomedical facility - with the sanctuary's other residents. (awionline.org)
  • Pan troglodytes transmembrane protein 60 (TMEM60), mRNA. (genscript.com)
  • Male chimpanzees have a very fluid dominance hierarchy. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee. (lu.se)
  • Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male Chimpanzee. (lu.se)
  • Native to sub-Saharan Africa, chimpanzees are found in and around the Congo Basin (north of the Congo River) and throughout West Africa. (anthropogeny.org)
  • Analyses of principal trabecular orientation corroborated known behavioral differences related to variation of hand use in these taxa, but only Pan showed directional patterning associated with suggested wrist posture. (mendeley.com)
  • The results show that chimpanzees adjusted both the type of object used, and the modality of object actions to match the visual attention of the recipient, as well as colony differences in the use of targeted object actions. (springer.com)
  • To shed new light on this topic, the aim of this paper is to explore how chimpanzees use object actions when interacting with others and examine the effect of social factors on object signalling. (springer.com)
  • however, when their foraging method became substantially less efficient, nine chimpanzees with socially-acquired information (four of whom witnessed additional human demonstrations) relinquished their old behaviour in favour of the more efficient one. (nature.com)
  • Some lab environments may be highly enriching and provide chimpanzees with greater experience with human artifacts etc. (peerj.com)
  • Breakpoint analysis of the pericentric inversion distinguishing human chromosome 4 from the homologous chromosome in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). (anthropogeny.org)
  • The breakpoints of the inversion that distinguishes human chromosome 4 (HSA4) from its chimpanzee counterpart were identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and comparative sequence analysis. (anthropogeny.org)
  • One of these genes, WDFY3, exhibits a three-fold difference in expression between human and chimpanzee. (anthropogeny.org)
  • Bland-Altman plots for analyses of agreement between results for direct BP measurement (gold standard) obtained with the use of tibial artery catheterization and oscillometric BP measurement obtained with the use of a cuff placed around the second digit of a forelimb to determine SAP (A), MAP (B), and DAP (C) in the anesthetized chimpanzees described in Figure 1. (avma.org)
  • The chimpanzee lives in groups that range in size from 15 to 150 members, although individuals travel and forage in much smaller groups during the day. (wikipedia.org)
  • You can watch the chimpanzees search for hidden food that the keepers hid for them in a variety of places. (serengeti-park.de)
  • It is not the case that all lab chimpanzees live in restricted environments, nor that all zoo chimpanzees do not. (peerj.com)
  • Chimpanzees live in the tropical forests and savannas of equatorial Africa, from Senegal in the west to Lake Albert and northwestern Tanzania in the east. (animalplanetory.com)
  • Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (P. troglodytes ellioti (also known as P. t. vellerosus)), that live within forested areas across Nigeria and Cameroon, with 6000-9000 individuals still in existence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Only a single chimpanzee in control groups, who had not witnessed a knowledgeable model, discovered this. (nature.com)
  • Chimpanzees have brown or black hair coats, but only a short white beard covers their faces. (animalplanetory.com)
  • The chimpanzee is covered in coarse black hair, but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. (wikipedia.org)
  • We argue that the temporal proximity of the to-be-remembered information and the interference item during encoding is the factor driving chimpanzees' performance in the present studies. (stir.ac.uk)