Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Their "reinterpretation hypothesis" explains away evidence supporting attribution of mental states to others in chimpanzees as merely evidence of risk-based learning; that is, the chimpanzees learn through experience that certain behaviors in other chimpanzees have a probability of leading to certain responses, without necessarily attributing ...
Roger S. Fouts delivering Washoe's Eulogy. Roger S. Fouts (born June 8, 1943) is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University.
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and ...
Chimpanzees are adapted for both arboreal and terrestrial locomotion. Arboreal locomotion consists of vertical climbing and brachiation. [42] [43] On the ground, chimpanzees move both quadrupedally and bipedally. These movements appear to have similar energy costs. [44]
Much of the early work on ToM in animals focused on the understanding chimpanzees have of human knowledge. The term "theory of mind" was originally proposed by Premack and Woodruff in 1978. [2] [5] Early studies focused almost entirely on studying if chimpanzees could understand the knowledge of humans. This approach turned out not to be ...
Chimpanzee performance on computer tasks seems to be influenced by the number of people watching, a new study suggests.. A human being’s performance may change for better or worse when they have ...
They were more likely to advance into dangerous territory after descending a hill if the rival chimpanzees were further away. Such incursions occurred approximately 40% of the time when rivals ...
The Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project (CRP) is a rehabilitation center associated with the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), located at the River Gambia National Park (RGNP), established in 1979. It is the home of 100 chimpanzees living free in four separate groups spread in three islands. [1] [2]