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Chimpanzees can make at least 32 sounds with distinct meanings for humans. [10] Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans have used sign language, physical tokens, keyboards and touch screens to communicate with humans in numerous research studies. The research showed that they understood multiple signals and produced them to communicate with humans.
In Virunga National Park in the east of the country, the park authorities regularly confiscate chimpanzees from people keeping them as pets. [161] Outside their range, chimpanzees are popular as exotic pets despite their strength and aggression. Even in places where keeping non-human primates as pets is illegal, the exotic pet trade continues ...
In the 1997 movie “Buddy,” Rene Russo plays a wealthy, eccentric collector of wild animals. Hoarder might be a more fitting description. Chimpanzees are among the animals in her possession.
Chimpanzees have been known to use tools for as long as they have been studied. Andrew Whiten found that chimpanzees not only use tools, but also conform to using the same method as the majority of individuals in the group. [53] This conformity bias is prevalent in human culture as well and is commonly referred to as peer pressure. [citation ...
HBO's "Chimp Crazy," a docuseries premiering Sunday from "Tiger King" director Eric Goode, is less about the animals in question than the people who own them.
Scientists say effect of audience on performance may not be specific to humans
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 ...
Chimp Crazy is set to provide the answers in its upcoming episodes, but the chimpanzee's current home is not a secret. In the spring of 2022, PETA learned that Haddix was keeping Tonka in her ...