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Showing posts with label apes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apes. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
What happens if you tickle a gorilla?
By tickling young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, researchers say they learned that all great apes laugh.
Their findings suggest we inherited our own ability to laugh from the last common ancestor from which humans and great apes evolved, which lived 10 to 16 million years ago.
Primatologist and psychologist Marina Davila Ross of the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth led a team that tickled the necks, feet, palms, and armpits of infant and juvenile apes as well as human babies. The team recorded more than 800 of the resulting giggles and guffaws.
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(via Boing Boing)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Caution : Possible cute overdose
The following photos are from the Daily Mail's story about the Infant Care Unit at Bukit Merah Lake Town Resort - dubbed Orang-Utan Island - located in the Malaysian jungle. It is a very special hospital because all of its patients are from the endangered Borneo species of orangutans, the Pongo Pygmaeus. 
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Baby Chimps Given Human Love Are Smarter
Orphaned infant chimpanzees that received attentive, nurturing care from human surrogate mothers were found to be more intellectually advanced than the average human baby when both groups were compared at the age of nine months, according to a new study published in the latest issue of Developmental Psychobiology.
When the chimps were nine months old, they took an IQ test normally used to evaluate human infant development. The chimps who had received responsive care aced the test, even surpassing the scores of average human infants tested at the same age.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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