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  • June 2008

    • Spain Passes Ape Rights Bill

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 26, 08 1:14 PM CDT

      Spain Passes Ape Rights Bill

      (Newser) - Spanish Parliament passed a resolution promising fundamental “human” rights to the great apes, the Guardian reports. The bill enjoys wide support and would ban scientific experimentation involving higher-level primates. Zoo exhibition will still be legal, but supporters say living conditions will improve significantly. The legislative body was inspired by philosopher Peter Singer’s Great Apes Project, a primate advocacy group. More »

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      Spain  • animal rights  • chimpanzees  • parliament  • gorilla  • apes  • orangutans

    • Lusty She-Chimps Emulate SATC

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 18, 08 12:31 PM CDT

      Lusty She-Chimps Emulate SATC

      (Newser) - New research into the sex lives of chimpanzees compares the behavior of females to their  peers in the urban jungle of Sex and the City. Female chimps are promiscuous, hoping to fool several male Mr. Bigs into thinking they fathered offspring, and noisy, to attract other partners. Dominant males are more likely to protect females and provide child care if they think they're the dad. But the females turn secretive around female rivals, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      sex  • Sex and the City  • chimpanzees  • Kim Cattrall

    • Study: Cuddles Calm Chimps After Conflict

      Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Study: Cuddles Calm Chimps After Conflict

      (Newser) - Chimpanzees console each other with hugs and kisses after a conflict much like humans do, researchers have discovered. After a chimp has been the victim of aggression, its stress levels are greatly reduced when it's embraced by another. The findings reveal a level of empathy in man's closest relative that is absent in monkeys, said a primate expert. More »

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      animal  • chimpanzees  • animal behavior

  • January 2008

    • Chimp Not a Person, Court Rules

      Associated Press  |  Jan 15, 08 4:24 PM CST

      Chimp Not a Person, Court Rules

      (Newser) - Matthew Hiasl Pan, a 26-year-old chimp, is not legally a person, the Austrian Supreme Court has ruled. The animal shelter where he lives has declared bankruptcy, and human donors have volunteered to support him. But under Austrian law, only people can receive personal gifts, reports the AP, so the court rejected an animal rights group's petition to change Matthew's legal status. More »

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      Austria  • animal rights  • chimpanzees

  • November 2007

    • Communicating Chimp Signs Off

      Seattle Times  |  Nov 2, 07 5:07 PM CDT

      Communicating Chimp Signs Off

      (Newser) - Washoe, the first non-human to learn a human language, is being remembered as a linguistic pioneer and a "polite, cheerful person," even though she was a chimp. Washoe, who died this week at 42, could use around 250 different American Sign Language signs in conversation, the Seattle Times reports, and continued to communicate her feelings until her death. More »

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      obituary  • chimpanzees

  • September 2007

    • What's Baby Got That Chimps Don't?

      Time  |  Sep 7, 07 12:05 PM CDT

      What's Baby Got That Chimps Don't?

      (Newser) - What makes humans smarter than their primate relatives? Into the ongoing debate comes a new study that concludes it's not just size, it's the particular kind of computing power. A study matching human toddlers with chimps and orangutans compared their performance on a battery of different kinds of tasks. The children were no better at "physical learning" —i.e. finding hidden objects—but miles ahead in "social learning." More »

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      children  • baby  • evolution  • intelligence  • chimpanzees  • learning  • apes

  • July 2007

    • Scientists Rethink the Bonobo

      New Yorker  |  Jul 23, 07 10:02 AM CDT

      Scientists Rethink the Bonobo

      (Newser) - Bonobos—the chimp cousins revered by generations of naturalists for their peaceful, playful, apparently even eco-conscious attitudes—may not be quite as groovy as we've been led to believe. Much of the cult of bonobo has been built around data from animals in captivity, where, as one scientist says, "What is there to do except eat and have sex?” More »

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      science  • chimpanzees

    • Giant Chimps Found in Congo

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 14, 07 1:30 PM CDT

      Giant Chimps Found in Congo

      (Newser) - Scientists from the University of Amsterdam have discovered a population of giant, near ape-size chimpanzees in the Congo. Long rumored to exist, they are referred to by local hunters as lion-eating chimps. And while the scientists could not confirm the lion-eating, they did see a band of the chimps eating a leopard. More »

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      animal  • species  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • chimpanzees

  • June 2007

    • Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

      Scientific American  |  Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT

      Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

      (Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American . The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies of a retrovirus that inserted its DNA into cells, as HIV does today. More »

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      health  • DNA  • disease  • genetics  • AIDS  • evolution  • HIV  • genome  • chimpanzees

  • May 2007

    • NIH Won't Breed Chimps for Research

      Reuters  |  May 25, 07 6:21 AM CDT

      NIH Won't Breed Chimps for Research

      (Newser) - The National Institutes of Health will stop breeding chimpanzees for use in medical testing, the agency announced yesterday. The practice is being abandoned for financial reasons, NIH says; because chimpanzees live upwards of 50 years in captivity, their lifelong upkeep costs $500,000. More »

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      health  • science  • research  • animal rights  • chimpanzees  • NIH

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