A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers ( Read more... )

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Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.

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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

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Why did humans evolve to walk upright? Perhaps because it's just plain easier ( Read more... )

I justed to post before I get caught up in pack and leaving to post that I got in Central Washington University's Chimpanzee Human Communication Institute program (see post here). I'm pretty excited but also nervous to go. Anyway if you want to follow updates (since my personal journal is friends' locked), you can by reading this journal
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By Charles Q. ChoiThe killing of infant wild chimpanzees by female adults of their own kind may be more common than was thought ( Read more... )

I got the reading list for my internship (I'll be a summer apprenticship here) and My school does not carry some of the journal articles. I've listed the journals under the cut, if you could be anywhere I could acquire the articles without having to pay for them that would be awesome. Thank you

Human Evolution
The Ethological Roots of Culture
ATLA
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