Experts try to explain chimp’s rampage

In the wake of a brutal attack by a pet chimpanzee on a Connecticut woman, people are asking what went wrong. But that, a wildlife expert says, is the wrong question.

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Did prehistoric chimps use stone tools too?

Chimpanzee stone tools excavated in Taï National Park, Côte de Ivoire (Image: Gerald Newlands)

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In her latest book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, she writes, "There are surely plants and animals living in the remote places beyond our current knowledge. There are discoveries yet to be made."

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Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection.

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Thirty chimpanzees have escaped from their enclosure at a zoo in Cheshire, forcing it to be closed. The animals found their way into a nearby keepers' area, where their food is usually prepared, at about 1240 BST, Chester Zoo said.

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Tanzania's chimpanzee population has plummeted by more than 90 percent, from 10,000 a few years ago to just 700 today, according to a report from the Tanzania National Parks Authority.

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June 2, 2009 -- Central African chimpanzees crave honey so much that they've invented the animal kingdom's most complex known set of tools to get it, according to researchers who found many of the tools still slathered with the syrupy liquid.

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Mice car­ry­ing a "hu­man­ized" ver­sion of a gene be­lieved to in­flu­ence speech and lan­guage may not ac­tu­ally talk, but none­the­less have a lot to say about our ev­o­lu­tion­ary past, a new study suggests.

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I hate every monkey I see; from chimpan-A to chimpanzee. I do not have an irrational fear of higher primates; I have a reasonable regard for their absolute vicious craziness.

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A chimpanzee can likely rip your arms off, but would probably have trouble using a mouse to click on a link to the Human Evolution group in Newsvine.

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Researchers say a chimpanzee at a Swedish zoo has proven that apes are as capable of forward planning as humans.

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After last week's chimpanzee attack in Connecticut, in which an animal named Travis tore off the face of a middle-aged woman, primate experts interviewed by the media repeated an old statistic: Chimpanzees are five to eight times stronger than people.

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Minutes before a pet chimp attacked a woman in Connecticut last weekend, he may have been given the anti-anxiety medication Xanax because he was agitated, according to statements by his owner that she later retracted.

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The time for mendacities is over. Let's be frank: The cartoon was highly offensive to many, not just Afro-Americans.

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From Article: The Davises are like any other family, only instead of a son, they raised a chimpanzee. As with Travis, the chimp that attacked a woman in Connecticut on Monday, for years everything seemed fine.

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"Right before the great apes branched off from other apes and monkeys 10 million years ago, their DNA began to make explosive changes -- not classic mutations, but another change known as copy number variation, University of Washington geneticist Evan Eichler and colleagues found …

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ANJANA the chimp is proving to be a doting foster mum – to her white TIGER cubs. These amazing new pictures show the motherly monkey has not been driven bananas by the playful cubs who she lovingly bottle feeds.

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A new comparison of chimpanzee and human genomes has offered an early but tantalizing look into what makes the two species, nearly identical at the DNA level, so different.

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Male managers act like members of the animal kingdom, particularly monkeys and chimpanzees, according to new research.

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Chimpanzees may not forget a familiar face—or a behind, a new study says.

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If you have just had a big falling out with a colleague, there is nothing better than the comforting and consoling arm of a good friend.

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Rather than being a precursor to sleep, yawning is designed to keep us awake, say US researchers. But why does seeing someone else yawn make you to do the same?

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Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.

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Part of our strong curiosity about chimps and other primates is the striking similarities we hold with them.

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Dr Jane Goodall, famous for her pioneering studies and passionate work on behalf of chimpanzees, thinks it's time for others to be rewarded for compassionate sceince.

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Primatologists reported Thursday in the journal Science that only 66 percent of visitors to Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago thought chimps were endangered.

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