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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

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.