The park, Tanzania's most remote and one of its most alluring, is first and foremost a chimpanzee sanctuary.
Professor McGrew said the team was starting to see new patterns of chimpanzee behaviour emerging.
"Look at Cooper, " said Wolf referring to the chimpanzee in the cage next to Little Mama.
Who knows, perhaps even Mr Buffett will fail eventually to beat Mr Malkiel's blindfolded chimpanzee.
They aligned sections of the human and chimpanzee genomes and identified how much they diverged.
Frans De Waal: " Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
AIDS, for example, the global epidemic is caused by what was originally a chimpanzee virus.
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There was the chimpanzee and the tigers and dangling his child briefly from a hotel balcony.
He's a retired movie star, and he's believed to be the oldest living chimpanzee in the world.
Moreover, there are a further two very rare forms caused by different versions of the chimpanzee virus.
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"We continue to be surprised at the extent of chimpanzee elementary technology, " Professor McGrew told BBC News Online.
They had been tested with an apparatus to see if one chimpanzee was willing to push food toward another.
The chimpanzee would then discover that only one of the eight containers contained food--either apples or slices of bread.
So scientists can clock how long ago HIV diverged from its chimpanzee ancestor.
She may be the oldest chimpanzee in captivity but she does not look her age when compared to other chimpanzees.
They nailed a pair of hollow tubes on the walls of the chimpanzee enclosure and loaded them with four containers.
He also cautions against applying information gleaned from studying the structure and function of chimpanzee brains to the human realm.
Others, like Jane Goodall, the renowned chimpanzee expert and conservationist, also believe that the wild is not always the right fit for certain animals.
And so it's not hard to imagine a chimpanzee being bitten while it's attacking another monkey and picking up virus that way.
Goodall determined that the chimpanzee was between 30 and 35 years old.
Watching the new Disneynature film Chimpanzee and the crimes launched by warring chimps reminded me of people committing unthinkable crimes against each other.
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Initial findings have revealed that 15% of the gorilla genome is closer to human DNA than to our nearest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee.
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"The field camp was mainly set up to look at and protect the Nigerian chimpanzee, which is a sub-population of chimpanzee, " Dr Pilgrim added.
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NPR's Richard Knox reports that the discovery clarifies the story of how a chimpanzee virus touched off the deadliest pandemic since the Middle Ages.
They found that chimpanzee females use copulation calls strategically to enlist the future protective support of males against aggressive group members, especially other females.
As the psychologist Philip Tetlock demonstrated in his magisterial analysis of 20-years of expert prediction, a dart-throwing chimpanzee was a better guide to the future.
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"Animals like the forest elephant and chimpanzee are in danger of extinction in West Africa in 10 years according to scientific experts globally, " he added.
And at 74, Cheeta has exceeded the average life expectancy for a chimpanzee in captivity by nearly a quarter-century, which makes this a very happy birthday indeed.
Among those trying to recover at the lake with GJ is a woman still in shock after seeing her beloved chimpanzee kill one of her friends before being killed himself.
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