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STUDY SAYS

Jun 3, 2015 4:44 AM CDT

Chimpanzees Want to Cook Their Food

But they lack fire, and the right 'social skills'

(Newser) - Chimps: the frustrated chefs of the animal kingdom? Humans are the only creatures to cook their food, but our closest relatives have the mental ability to cook and are more than happy to do so when given a chance, according to a new study. Scientists confirmed that chimps prefer cooked...

Back Pain Sufferers Have
Less Evolved Spines

STUDY SAYS

Apr 28, 2015 5:21 AM CDT

Back Pain Sufferers Have Less Evolved Spines

Their vertebrae are more like those of chimps than the unafflicted

(Newser) - People who suffer from back pain have been dealt a lousy hand by evolution and might be more comfortable walking on their knuckles like our closest relatives, chimpanzees, according to Canadian, Scottish, and Icelandic researchers. Their study found that lower back pain sufferers have a lesion called a "Schmorl'...

Judge: Lab
Chimps Have
Right to Fight
for Freedom

Apr 21, 2015 11:11 AM CDT

Judge: Lab Chimps Have Right to Fight for Freedom

First time in US history animals allowed to challenge detention via habeas corpus

(Newser) - The writ of habeas corpus lets prisoners appear in court to make their captors justify why they're being held. Until now in the US, those who've used this legal tactic have been human. But a New York judge yesterday ruled that the writ may be used by two...

2nd-Deadliest
HIV Group
Traced to
Its Source

2nd-Deadliest HIV Group Traced to Its Source

The origins of all 4 HIV groups have now been pinpointed

(Newser) - Of the four identified groups of human AIDS viruses—HIV-1 M, N, O, and P—only M and N had been traced to their source. Until now. Researchers from institutions around the world, including the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , are reporting that the origins of groups O (the...

Your Dog Forgot the
Hug You Just Gave Him

new study

Feb 27, 2015 8:42 AM CST

Your Dog Forgot the Hug You Just Gave Him

Study finds animals have short short-term memory spans

(Newser) - When it comes to short-term memory, animals have very short ones indeed. A new meta-analysis examined more than 90 memory experiments carried out on 25 species encompassing birds, mammals, and bees. Researchers at Stockholm University and Brooklyn College found that for dogs, events are forgotten after about two minutes—and...

What Chimps Say When They Talk to Each Other

STUDY SAYS

Jan 21, 2015 12:58 PM CST

What Chimps Say When They Talk to Each Other

There's a special kind of fruit that makes them all chatty

(Newser) - Chimps chat, just like we do—and like many of us, they spend a lot of time gabbing about what they want to eat and where they're going to get their next meal, Discovery reports. For a study published in Animal Behaviour , scientists camped out in the Ivory Coast'...

Court: Chimp
Isn't Human,
Doesn't Get
Human Rights

Dec 4, 2014 5:12 PM CST

Court: Chimp Isn't Human, Doesn't Get Human Rights

Which means 'Tommy' won't be freed from his owner

(Newser) - A strange human-rights case unfolded in a New York state courtroom today, strange because the subject isn't actually human. The upshot is this: An appellate court ruled that a chimpanzee named Tommy is not entitled to the same rights as people and thus does not have to be freed...

Man Didn't Turn
Chimps Into Killers

study says

Sep 18, 2014 8:52 AM CDT

Man Didn't Turn Chimps Into Killers

Study finds chimpanzees are inherently lethal

(Newser) - Chimpanzees are "natural born killers," and their tendency toward lethal aggression is not a result of human influence, a new study finds. The study, published in Nature , looked at chimp-on-chimp killings in 18 chimp communities over a span of five decades and assessed how much those communities had...

Chimp Sues
Over Living
Conditions

Apr 26, 2014 5:34 PM CDT

Chimp Sues Over Living Conditions

Next to file: dolphins, elephants

(Newser) - A lawyer and his team are fighting for animal rights in an unusual way: by filing lawsuits on behalf of chimpanzees. The New York Times focuses on the case of Tommy, a chimp who is, as Charles Siebert writes, effectively suing for better living conditions. Despite protections under the law,...

Adults Lose
Video Game
... to a Chimp

Mar 12, 2014 4:53 PM CDT

Adults Lose Video Game ... to a Chimp

Chimpanzees play as fast as kindergarten kids

(Newser) - Maybe the struggling Nintendo should market to apes. A 22-year-old chimpanzee performed better than 12 kids and four adults in a virtual-reality maze, a study found. In terms of speed, the chimps were generally on par with children aged 3 to 6 in the group. But when it came to...

Chimp Rights:
Not as Wacky
as It Sounds

OPINION

Dec 10, 2013 1:58 PM CST

Chimp Rights: Not as Wacky as It Sounds

There are sound legal reasons to consider monkeys people, Danny Cevallos argues

(Newser) - When he first read about a petition demanding habeas corpus for a chimp named Tommy, Danny Cevallos thought what many people would: "Are. You. Kidding. Me?" Animals are, legally speaking, "chattel," meaning property, no different than a potted plant. But then the CNN legal analyst actually read...

Chimps
Are Legal
People, Too:
Lawsuit

Dec 3, 2013 1:24 AM CST

Chimps Are Legal People, Too: Lawsuit

Group challenges 'unlawful detention' in NY

(Newser) - Are chimpanzees people— just like corporations ? Chimps deserve to be considered legal persons with some of the same rights as people—including the "fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned," according a lawsuit in New York state. The Nonhuman Rights Project has filed a writ of habeas...

Stopping Tests
on Chimps
Hurts ...
Chimps

OPINION

Aug 2, 2013 12:04 PM CDT

Stopping Tests on Chimps Hurts ... Chimps

NIH move is bad for animals in the long run: research center chief

(Newser) - The NIH is drastically reducing its research on chimps, a move that animal rights advocates hail as humane and long overdue. They've got it exactly backward, writes the director of a research center affected by the move. What they fail to consider is that chimp research doesn't just...

Humans' Big Edge Over
Chimps: We Can Throw

Jun 26, 2013 6:04 PM CDT

Humans' Big Edge Over Chimps: We Can Throw

When our ancestors figured it out 2 million years ago, it was huge

(Newser) - A chimp would never be able to throw a fastball, or anything even close to a fastball, and that seemingly weird fact helps explain why humans came to rule the animal kingdom, says a new study in Nature . Researchers say that early humans—Homo erectus, to be exact—developed the...

US: Chimps Too
'Endangered'
for Research

Jun 12, 2013 2:20 PM CDT

US: Chimps Too 'Endangered' for Research

Agency might give status to all chimps, both in captivity and wild

(Newser) - A new proposal by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to declare chimpanzees living in captivity as "endangered" rather than "threatened" is more than just semantics: It will help protect the primates from being the subjects of medical research. Since 1990, only wild chimps have classified by the...

1 in 13
Humans
Have Feet
Like Apes

Jun 2, 2013 3:58 PM CDT

1 in 13 Humans Have Feet Like Apes

Floppy feet offer small piece of evolutionary puzzle

(Newser) - No one wants to be told their feet look like an ape's, but scientists say that many humans' do, and there's a good reason why: It's evolution, baby. Humans typically have rigid feet, held together by stiff ligaments, explains the BBC . But researchers studied the feet of...

NIH May Soon Retire Almost All Its Research Chimps

Jan 23, 2013 1:19 PM CST

NIH May Soon Retire Almost All Its Research Chimps

New recommendations would keep just 50 on hand

(Newser) - The National Institutes of Health could soon be letting most of its 451 research chimpanzees retire in sanctuaries, if new recommendations are put into effect. The NIH Council of Councils approved a report yesterday that unanimously recommends almost all the chimps should no longer be used for research, with just...

Another
Midlife-Crisis
Victim: Apes

STUDY SAYS

Nov 20, 2012 3:21 AM CST

Another Midlife-Crisis Victim: Apes

Slump in happiness mirrors that in humans

(Newser) - While you won't find them buying sports cars or having affairs with their biographers, apes are just as susceptible to midlife crises as their human counterparts, a new study claims. Researchers questioned the keepers of hundreds of captive orangutans and chimpanzees and found that just like with humans, the...

Runaway Chimp Escapes Again

Aug 13, 2012 12:04 AM CDT

Runaway Chimp Escapes Again

CJ is recaptured in Vegas, moved to a zoo

(Newser) - A runaway chimpanzee whose escapades with her cage mate got her partner killed in Las Vegas last month has slipped out of her enclosure again. A neighbor spotted CJ running free from her northwest Vegas home for the second time in just weeks—but this time cops were more prepared....

Loose Chimp Shot in Vegas

Jul 13, 2012 1:32 AM CDT

Loose Chimp Shot in Vegas

Residents panic after pair of pet chimps escape

(Newser) - A pair of chimps had an unlucky escape in Las Vegas yesterday. Police responding to calls from panicked residents shot a male chimp dead and tranquilized a female, CNN reports. The chimps, which had escaped from a home, had been banging on cars and damaging vehicles, police say. The male...