January 16, 2012
Chimpanzees at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: Tuoi Tre). Two chimpanzees were placed on display at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The endangered primates came to Vietnam from from a Japanese zoo, with the male weighing 70 [...]
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May 4, 2011
File photo of three female chimpanzees at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday. The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenge assumptions [...]
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March 12, 2011
Missing chunks of DNA responsible for turning genes on and off help explain some key differences between chimpanzees and humans — including why humans have big brains and why the human penis is not covered with prickly spines, US researchers said on Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, reinforces the notion that [...]
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August 5, 2009
Red blood cell bursting after infection of malaria (Photo courtesy of scienceblogs.com) Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, US researchers reported in a recent study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection. They found evidence the parasite that causes most cases of malaria is a [...]
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