chimpanzees

Simian foamy virus found to be widespread among chimpanzees

harminka — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:50:15 -0500

Researchers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gabon, Germany, Japan, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the United States have found that simian foamy virus (SFV) is widespread among wild chimpanzees throughout equatorial Africa. Details are published July 4th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

Virginia Tech researchers find human virus in chimpanzees

harminka — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:46:57 -0500

After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Virginia Tech researcher Dr. Taranjit Kaur and her team have produced powerful scientific evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans.

Who's bad? Chimps figure it out by observation

harminka — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:27:46 -0500

Chimpanzees make judgments about the actions and dispositions of strangers by observing others’ behavior and interactions in different situations. Specifically, chimpanzees show an ability to recognize certain behavioral traits and make assumptions about the presence or absence of these traits in strangers in similar situations thereafter.

Malaria vaccine trials begin using 'chimpanzee virus'

seher — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:20:41 -0600

Trials are underway for a new vaccine to combat the most deadly form of malaria. For the first time ever, researchers will use a virus found in chimpanzees to boost the efficacy of the vaccine. The trials will take place at the University of Oxford's Jenner Institute, led by its Director, Professor Adrian Hill, and are funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Turning on adult stem cells may help repair bone

harminka — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:56:44 -0600

Common human viruses are responsible for outbreaks of respiratory disease that have led to the decline of endangered chimpanzees in the wild, according to a study reported online on January 24th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes

harminka — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:54:15 -0600

Common human viruses are responsible for outbreaks of respiratory disease that have led to the decline of endangered chimpanzees in the wild, according to a study reported online on January 24th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Down to earth remedies for chimps

harminka — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:37:52 -0600

The deliberate ingestion of soil, or ‘geophagy’, has important health benefits for chimpanzees, according to Sabrina Krief and her colleagues from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France. Far from being a dysfunctional behavior, geophagy has evolved as a practice for maintaining health amongst chimpanzees.

Scientists find cultural differences among chimpanzee colonies

harminka — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:32:44 -0600

Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.

Scientists Find Cultural Differences Among Chimpanzee Colonies

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:27:34 -0600

Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.

Adult male chimpanzees don't stray far from home

harminka — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:33:37 -0600

When it comes to choosing a place to live, male chimpanzees in the wild don’t stray far from home, according to a new report in the Dec. 27th Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. The researchers found that adult male chimps out on their own tend to follow in their mother’s footsteps, spending their days in the same familiar haunts where they grew up.

Wild chimpanzees appear not to regularly experience menopause

harminka — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:34:30 -0600

A pioneering study of wild chimpanzees has found that these close human relatives do not routinely experience menopause, rebutting previous studies of captive individuals which had postulated that female chimpanzees reach reproductive senescence at 35 to 40 years of age.

Unlike humans, chimpanzees don't go through menopause

harminka — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:31:08 -0600

Researchers have found no evidence that chimpanzees in the wild undergo menopause in the way that women do, according to a new report published online on December 13th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. That’s despite the fact that reproduction tends to peter out at a similar age in both species.