What is "chimpanzees"

Usage examples of "chimpanzees".

There is by now a vast library of described and filmed conversations, employing Ameslan and other gestural languages, with Washoe, Lucy, Lana and other chimpanzees studied by the Gardners and others.

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages.

The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due, and can, I hope, help to extend our ethical perspectives downward through the taxa on Earth and upwards to extraterrestrial organisms, if they exist.

But later observations showed that Washoe and other chimpanzees were perfectly able both to ask questions and to deny assertions put to them.

Differences in group behavior-something that it is very tempting to call cultural differences-have been reported among chimpanzees, baboons, macaques and many other primates.

Until a few years ago, the most extensive attempt to communicate with chimpanzees went something like this: A newborn chimp was taken into a household with a newborn baby, and both would be raised together-twin cribs, twin bassinets, twin high chairs, twin potties, twin diaper pails, twin baby powder cans.

When we speak to dogs, horses, dolphins, chimpanzees or to any other creature, we unconsciously employ gesture, body posture, facial expression, tone of voice, and so on.

But Jane Goodall and others have reported that among chimpanzees, the enemies of the morning will be playmates of the afternoon.

The chimpanzees were asked to label the location of the teacher who was moving about.

Before he went, he made his farewells to each of the fifty chimpanzees, even the infants.

He drew a hierarchy that began with God and ran downward through human beings and chimpanzees to dogs and cats and onward to insects and frogs, by way of giving the chimps some sense of the great chain of life.

We have agreed for the moment not to engage the chimpanzees in any direct interrogation about any of this.

But it was not until the first experiments decades ago in teaching chimpanzees human sign-language that any important linguistic capacity became apparent in them.

Chimps can be sly and they can be manipulative, but even the best of them, and Leo is the Einstein of chimpanzees, does not seem to know how to lie.

Leo coolly stared us down and explained that God had given orders that all chimpanzees were to become human beings as quickly as possible, and this could only be achieved by the means employed on Chicory and Buster.