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09/05/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Yes, they’re conscious: Chimpanzee learns how to play paper, scissors, rock with a human child

Chimpanzees have the learning capacity of a four-year child, being able to learn simple circular relationships as seen in a rock-paper-scissors game. The new study, published in Primates, demonstrates a chimp’s ability to gather information and use this in a real-life situation. Researchers say that this proves the higher levels of intelligence possessed by primates. […]

07/29/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Chimpanzees found to accumulate and transfer cultural knowledge from one generation to the next

A study that was recently published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior showed that chimpanzees, which the theory of evolution says are where men are descended from, exhibit “cumulative culture”, or the ability to build on the work of others. Until now, it was thought that only humans, baboons, and pigeons had this ability. In […]

06/27/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Chimpanzees observed by scientists are changing their hunting behavior because they know they’re being watched

Researchers at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have observed that two chimpanzee communities in the Budongo Forest in Uganda have vastly different ways of hunting and sharing the meat of the prey that they hunted. The scientists concluded that the difference in hunting styles has something to do with the presence or non-presence of […]

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