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TopicChimpanzee

Topic: Chimpanzee

AI thinks it’s smart. Chimps may beg to differ.

How can we compare human and machine intelligence when we can’t decide which species – cats or dogs — is more intelligent?

Jane Goodall—no formal degree until 1965, no laboratory, only passion for the wild

She showed that chimpanzees have emotions, personalities, and complex social lives. She gave them names instead of numbers.

Bonobos to Chimps, what our closest relatives tell us about humans

One argument scientists have made is that warlike tendencies are as hardwired in us as they are in chimpanzees.

Grunt, hoo & bark — study shows chimpanzees can string together sounds to form ‘sentences’

Findings of international group of researchers who observed adult chimpanzees at Taï National Park in Africa’s Ivory Coast published in open-access journal 'Communications Biology'.

Mysterious diseases in chimpanzees at Sierra Leone sanctuary linked to bacteria 

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Bonobo, the ‘make-love-not-war apes’ whose mothers meddle in their sons’ sex lives

For Bonobos, sex is really a family affair with mothers protecting their sons’ mating attempts from interference by other males.

Chimpanzees show unexpected behaviour, one that helped human ancestors flourish

Scientists have observed for the first time Chimpanzees aggressively smashing Tortoise shells to obtain the meat, a behaviour that offers a window back to our own evolution

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

A war in the Gulf, a crisis in Gujarat’s Morbi: India’s ceramics capital counts the cost

Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.