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“This group of chimpanzees has endured so much” said Kathleen Conlee, vice president of animal research issues at the Humane Society. “We hope that those who have used these animals in the past, including the pharmaceutical industry, will contribute ...http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/19/16000960-ray-of-light-lab-chimpanzees...
“They were acting aggressively,” Officer Laura Meltzer told msnbc.com on Thursday. “We had reports of two chimpanzees on the loose and one was pounding on a police car.” Meltzer said the chimps, a male and female, were very large. She said the male ...http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/12/12705976-cops-2-chimpanzees-get-loose...
This video grab provided by CareerBuilder.com, shows the executive chimpanzee advertisement that will air during Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5, 2012. Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo says there's nothing funny about a commercial featuring suit-and-tie wearing ...http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/31/10281294-continued-use-of-chimpanz...
An extensive look at what chimpanzees consume each day reveals that many of the plants they consume aren't for nutrition but are likely ingested for medicinal purpose. The findings, published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, indicate that the origins ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45484594/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/chimpanze...
Chimpanzees have an image problem. The portrayal of these great apes in commercials, movies and greeting cards may lead people to perceive them as appealing potential pets and overlook their endangered status, a new study indicates. A survey of 1,203 ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43746718/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/chimpanze...
There are other examples of very similar species overlapping and eventually one of them getting pushed out, explained Martínez-Navarro, especially involving carnivores out of Africa. The African species of saber toothed tiger, for example ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/21/18399982-shocking-new-theory-humans-...
That dogs exhibit a skill thought to be a building block of human culture is remarkable. Even our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, can’t read our gestures as well as dogs can. This extraordinary ability was probably an important ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51939717/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/dogs-show...
Click ahead to learn about nine other species that stand out for their smarts. If we humans possess intelligence, chimpanzees must have some as well: Our genomes are at least 98 percent identical. Chimps make and use tools, hunt in organized groups and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24628983/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/smartest-...
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers ... In any case, Franklin’s research led to the invention of the lightning rod, helped pave the way to batteries — and, according to Rothenberg, represented the beginning of U.S. science.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38158710/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/eight-gre...
The oldest ape and Old World monkey fossils have been unearthed in a riverbed in Tanzania, a new study reports. The fossil remnants of these two primate species date back to 25 million years ago, filling a gap in the fossil record that reveals when apes ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51892960/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/oldest-fo...
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A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing ...http://www.today.com/id/46209656/ns/today-today_pets/t/zoo-says-super-bowl-ad-wi...
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More than 100 chimpanzees that have lived virtually their entire lives in scientific laboratories will be sent to retire at a national sanctuary called Chimp Haven ...http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/19/16000960-ray-of-light-lab-chimpanzees...
Updated May. 20, 2013
Scientists unleashed a torrent of studies comparing the genetic coding for humans and chimpanzees on Wednesday, reporting that 96 percent of our DNA sequences are ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9136200/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/chimp-gene...
Updated May. 23, 2013
Chimpanzees have made headlines in recent years for several unprovoked attacks against humans, the latest last week at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden in ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48050991/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/why-do-ch...
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"These chimpanzees have six times the strength of a human being so you have to respect them and we certainly do," he said. More world news from msnbc.com and NBC News:http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/29/12477253-report-us-student-fightin...
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Famed primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall says the decision by the National Institutes of Health to remove 110 of its chimpanzees from invasive biomedical research is a ...http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/17/14125394-goodall-praises-nih-decision...
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Humans share about 99 percent of our genomes with chimpanzees. Now, research finds we share something else: gut bacteria. The bacterial colonies that populate the ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49809192/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/what-do-c...
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“There is talk that chimpanzees may be gone in my lifetime if we don’t get involved and change behaviors and support conservation organizations.http://www.today.com/pets/chimpanzee-highlights-human-side-our-closest-relatives...
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By Jennifer ViegasDiscovery News Eavesdropping on a well-cared-for group of chimpanzees in captivity finds they use a mixture of passionate gestures, vocalizations ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17863889-chimps-put-passion-in-their...
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Chimpanzees may have more smarts than humans, at least regarding short-term memories, new research suggests.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50834842/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/chimps-ha...
