Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
However concerns over the chimpanzee's status in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute as "research ineligible" rather than "retired" prompted NIH to reconsider the plan and it announced on 17 October 2012 that as many chimpanzees as possible will be relocated to Chimp Haven by August 2013 and eventually all 110 will move there. [9]
However, concerns over the chimpanzee’s status in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute as ‘research ineligible’ rather than ‘retired’ prompted NIH to reconsider the plan; it announced on 17 October 2012 that as many chimpanzees as possible would be relocated to Chimp Haven by August 2013, and that eventually all 110 would be moved ...
The organization sued NIH in 2019 over its decision at the time not to move the chimps from New Mexico to Chimp Haven. The judge in that case sided with The Humane Society, Arrivo wrote, including ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Jill Pruetz is an American anthropologist and primatologist.She currently works in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University.Pruetz is known for her groundbreaking research on savanna-dwelling chimpanzees in Senegal and her uncanny ability to engage public audiences.
The university cited lack of external funds to support the high costs of maintaining the center. The chimpanzees in the center were relocated to Primates, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. [8] Boysen filed a restraining order in February 2006 to stop the chimps from being moved to Texas, but it was denied. [9]
[3] [4] The two species were formerly collectively called "chimpanzees" or "chimps"; if bonobos were recognized as a separate group at all, they were referred to as "pygmy" or "gracile chimpanzees". Together with humans , gorillas , and orangutans they are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or hominids ).