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Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?
2008-02-24 03:16:00 I don't think you are. Click here to find out.Good luck.
Chimpanzee Beats British Memory Champion In Memory Competition
2008-01-25 19:05:00 From the Daily Mail: When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced. But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore. Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as ...
By: The Hot Joints
The Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust
2007-12-22 21:05:00 During our time in the Gambia, we will be staying almost entirely in the main base of the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust (UK charity number 108115).Extinct throughout much of its former range (it was wiped out in The Gambia in the early 1900s) the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) remains a globally endangered species. The Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust has also been heavily involved in education of the local population and this is seen as one of the most important factors in the continued success of their work. Stella Marsden writes:Managing the CRT and protecting the islands is an ongoing task with noforeseeable end. The chimps will need to be protected as long as humans pose athreat to them. If the children of the villages surrounding the Project can bebetter educated they may well go on to be people of influence in The Gambiataking with them some of the CRT's values for conservation and protection and ameasure of goodwill towards the CRT. Education is also a vital element in thede...
The Sudan Teddy Bear Flap [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-12-04 17:09:00 A new Pat Condell video regarding the “inappropriately named teddy bear” fiasco in the Sudan. As usual, it’s vintage Condell: Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/194-974795/the_sudan_teddy_bear_fla-p.php
Photo of the Day #44: Adult Chimpanzee [Laelaps]
2007-11-21 15:56:00 As a follow-up to yesterday’s photo of a juvenile Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), here’s a photo of the adult. The differences between the adult and juvenile are quite striking; the adult skull has a more pronounced brow ridge, smaller incisors compared to the rest of the skull, more prominent canines, and is a bit more prognathus (the jaw sticks out more). Indeed, the infants and juveniles of these apes are not just small clones of the adults but change in important ways as they grow and mature, although as I noted in the comments yesterday juvenile chimpanzees seem to be strikingly familiar, as is the famous Taung Skull of a juvenile Australopithecus. The infant and juvenile features in these organisms seem to share many traits with humans, and one of the most interesting hypotheses is that our own species is paedomorphic, more specifically exhibiting neoteny in which juvenile characters seen in our closest relatives (such as flattened face, large head, projected brain g...
Hagee on Beck [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-10-13 21:51:00 What happens when an end-of-times pastor meets a CNN bobble-head? One thing is for certain both science and rationality will be chucked out the window. John Hagee, head of a Texas mega-church had some truly crazy things to say on Glenn Beck’s Friday evening show (October 12, 2007). You can get the complete transcript here. A few select outtakes can be found below the fold. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/169-426859/hagee_on_beck.php
Escaped Chimpanzee Shot By Zoo Keepers In ?The Interest Of Public Safety?
2007-10-02 01:31:00 The case of the chimpanzee shot to death after breaking free from its zoo enclosure has sparked outrage amongst animal activists. Two chimps tunnelled their way out of their enclosure at Whipsnade this weekend. Keepers were able to capture Coco, the younger of the two chimps, but were unable to catch 41-year-old Jonnie. The zoo ...
By: Product Reviews
Rare sculpture-Chimpanzee 'Sally' by Rowland Ward ,Bronze sculpture,stone s
2007-09-20 21:23:00 Today I was just surfing the Internet in the morning and I have found some rare sculptures that I wish to share with you. These are really nice. A Rare Sculpture of the Chimpanzee 'Sally' by... Potpourri -A blog on various hot trends over the internet such as art, science, business ideas, make money online, fashion, entertainment, movies, music, fun, comics,travel, health, technology, news, sports, cute babies, career, earn from home,education,love & internet marketing.
By: Potpourri
Jealous Chimpanzee
2007-09-08 14:52:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cvvRvTteP_E Jealous Chimpanzee Share This Technorati Tags: fun, Funny VideosDelicious Tags: fun, Funny VideosWiki Tags: fun, Funny Videos
By: Funny Videos
The Dance of the Jumping Spider [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refug
2007-09-04 23:54:00 This deserves to be highlighted. Hat tip to Lorri Talley (see comments in Orb Weaver entry). I give you… The Mating Dance of the Jumping Spider! “I have the best pedipalps of them all! The very best. With my little dance, I will hypnotize you into wanting them. Yes, my darling, wanting them!” Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/152-289474/the_dance_of_the_jumping-_spide.php
Chimpanzee is my Auntie
2007-08-29 18:34:00 Photograph copyright Karen HunttIn 2003, study by a group of scientists revealed that we are genetically quite similar to chimpanzees. ‘That explains everything,’ my wife said, looking at me thoughtfully. I was surprised by the fact that humans are 99% genetically identical to the chimpanzees. The scientist who produced the evidence claims that the chimps (Pan troglodytes) should be reclassified as Homo troglodytes. This lead to a huge debate among the scientific community since this was clearly violating the historical classification schemes. In 2006, to make matters worse scientists suggested that earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees to create a hybrid species which eventually evolved in to modern humans (that explains 99%). Then in 2007 a study revealed that chimps may have evolved more than humans in the 6 or 7 million years since both diverged from a common ancestor. This is startling news, does that means chimpanzees are t...
By: Times Eye
LOLGonzales [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-08-27 11:15:00 (Original photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.) Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/148-796828/lolgonzales.php
I Am Officially Off My Overweight Case! I Am Smarter Than A Chimpanzee!
2007-08-08 00:00:00 After being beat up by a body mass index calculator yesterday, I have found an ally in my new found health problem. While life insurance underwriters still take a stance that obesity and some of it’s ugly cousins, diabetes and heart disease, are not going to get you the best rates, a fat advocate popped ...
Walk or Ride? [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-08-06 10:27:00 Is walking to the store “greener” than riding there in your car? Here’s an interesting article from The Times UK arguing for the car. The upfront argument is specious. Consider: “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/141-211618/walk_or_ride.php
DNA meets MLB! [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-08-05 00:33:00 Commenting on my slap at Bud Selig, Saint Gasoline brings up a good point about the futility of trying to account for the “tainting” by drug use of records in baseball. I figure that most of the people ostensibly agitating for asterisks next to new records don’t really want to see them used, recognizing that even staunch opponents of performance-enhancing drugs can’t avoid the reality of a slippery slope (i.e., how do we know people who were never caught before testing were really clean). Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-784601/dna_meets_mlb.php
Any Scrabble fans? [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-08-05 00:11:00 I hesitate to find yet more ways to waste time online, but if I’m going down I’m determined to drag others into the murky depths with me. I’ve never been one for online versions of pencil or board games — I’ve done a few sudoku puzzles here and there, but prefer for whatever reason to solve those in meatspace. But I recently signed up for a free account at Scrabulous, which is one of (I suspect) many places to play one of my favorite games of all time with friends and strangers on the Web. You can add me to your buddy list by signing up, then going here and adding “kemibe.” There are all sorts of variations on traditional Scrabble, ones that probably exist in “real life” as well, but I haven’t explored these and hope to not bother. Facebook also has a version of Scrabulous. This one’s cool because there ’s no time limit — you can log in, take as much time as you want, play a word, and when you check back, ...
Why Chimpanzees Make Bad Suicide Bombers
2007-08-04 17:04:00 The Evolution of Spite is the Evil Twin of AltruismSomeone walks into a crowded restaurant, looks about the diners calmly, and blows themselves up as well as everyone nearby. Why? This is a scenario that forces us to explain the dark side of human nature. Why do humans have a capacity for such hate that they?ll take their own lives in order to destroy others?A study in the current issue of PNAS on chimpanzee behavior suggests that humans may be alone in this way: a dubious distinction to say the least. In a review published yesterday in the Chicago Tribune the researchers suggest:"Spitefulness may be a peculiarly human trait," said Keith Jensen, a Canadian evolutionary biologist who has been looking to see whether human concepts like fairness and punishment are present in the social organization of another highly socialized species.In biological terms spite is the flip side to altruism and both have posed a thorny issue for evolutionary biologists. While an altruistic act is on...
Behe on Colbert Report [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-08-03 21:34:00 It’s short, but mildly amusing in a dumb, almost pitiful sort of way. Behe tries to come off as a serious scientist but he may as well just put a cracker box over his head and drool conspicuously. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-479570/behe_on_colbert_report.p-hp
Is sugar more addictive than cocaine? [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee
2007-08-02 10:32:00 Although quantifying substance addiction is difficult, if the answer to this question turns out to be definitive and “yes,” it’s likely that few people will be surprised. If you’re short on time or too lazy to read papers or even abstracts, here’s the money section of a paper published on PLoS by researchers at the University of Bordeaux in France: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/139-931489/is_sugar_more_addictive_-than_c.php
More from Carmona [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-30 00:30:00 I’m just going to refer you to Mark Hoofnagle’s post and advise you to stick some ice cubes in your ears before reading it and the linked Washington Post article. What I’ve written below is the expected grousing. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/138-676110/more_from_carmona.php
Will NASA learn to learn? [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-29 15:59:00 In 1986, NASA and Morton Thiokol engineers warned administrators that the fuel-tank seals on the Space Shuttle Challenger were likely to fail in sufficiently cold weather. NASA’s leadership ignored them, and the result was seven dead astronauts and a destroyed spacecraft. So catastrophic an event would, one might think, be sufficient to effect permanent changes in an agency’s management culture. But in 2003 it was the same story: Engineers leery of fatal damage to the Columbia shuttle from the shredding of its foam insulation were ignored, and seven more astronauts and another spacecraft met a violent end. Now it appears that NASA, despite calling for its own internal investigation about the behavior and general psychological well-being of its astronauts, would really rather not acknowledge the results. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/138-572472/will_na...
Meet Don McLeroy [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-26 10:05:00 Good morning, everyone! This is Don McLeroy. Doesn’t Don look happy? He should. He’s accomplished a great many things. He has an engineering degree, is a practicing dentist, has served in the U.S. Army, and has even helped out with his local Boy Scouts of America chapter, or congragation, or whatever they’re called. On top of that, he’s a Sunday-school teacher! I know these things because Don has a personal Web site. You should check it out, for Don has all sorts of interesting ideas, including these: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/137-584875/meet_don_mcleroy.php
Dawkins’ vicious facade [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-22 15:37:00 This is Dawkins, a delightful little cat (and I’m much more of a dog person) I took care of for a while last summer. He is not yowling here but yawning, just as the inspiration for his name is not angry at or intimidated by the catcalls from the unenlightened but rather is — at least sometimes — bored by their stereotypical and incessant inanity. I post this only because others here are posting pictures of a much less elegant feline in conjunction with some sort of “kat” quiz I refuse to take. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/136-244067/dawkins_vicious_facade.p-hp
Tracking Chimpanzees in Uganda
2007-07-20 20:51:00 The chilling screams might have been human, if it hadn’t been for the hooting too. “Hurry,” muttered ranger Ronald Tindyebwa, lifting his rifle. “Something is wrong. I heard them like this once before, when a chimp fell out of a high tree and died.” With nervous excitement we ran towards the ruckus, slipping down a ...
Apple iPhone Guts [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-12 09:38:00 Curious about what’s inside an iPhone? Well, the good folks at Audio Design Line (via EE Times) have a teardown. Mind you, it’s not like the old days when you could just pop off the cover of your new electronic doohickey and look at the manufacturer’s part numbers on the chips. These are the days of self-branded ICs. So what did the folks at the technology evaluation/investigation company Semiconductor Insights do? To get inside the chips, SI resorted to decapping, a process that involves immersing the chips in acid to dissolve the outer packaging and then manually scraping away any residual packaging material. Sounds like fun! Check out the video of SI’s teardown: I must admit that I had a little sinking feeling after reading this: Despite the phone’s “external simplicity and serene look and feel, the internal implementation is actually quite complex,” he said. “There are many secondary operations, fastener screws and difficult orien...
LetsNotWash.com [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-11 09:39:00 There is a darkly humorous thread at letsrun.com, a very popular site for runners, which may be of interest. The upshot is that a surprising number of people are saying that they do not wash their hands after using restrooms and arguing that they are better off because of it. I don’t think there is anything unique about the running population with regards to this topic except for the fact that runners seem willing to openly discuss anything that has to do with their bodies. All I can say is that it makes me happy that I seldom dine out. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/132-613982/letsnotwashcom.php
Humor, Men, and Women: The Film. [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Ref
2007-07-11 08:42:00 As a belated follow-on to my rant on ol’ Hissy Chrissy Hitchies’ contention that women aren’t funny, I offer this film clip via LiveScience: Humor and the Sexes. Be forewarned that you must suffer through a Yahoo ad in the beginning which pokes gentle fun at Incompetent Men and Their Tools, a subject that is always a knee-slappper. In the meat of the film, Allan Reiss discusses the tantalizing observations that men’s and women’s brains respond differently to humor. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/132-600073/humor_men_and_women_the_-film.php
The Prisoners’ Dilemma [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-08 20:26:00 This construct may be familiar to fans of the kind of “game theory” used to evaluate certain non-intuitive aspects of evolutionary biology, such as the selecting of traits that on the surface may not seem to bestow benefits at either the organismal or species levels. Richard Dawkins dealt with this extensively in The Selfish Gene, and at the time (the book was published in 1976), much of what he propounded was unfamiliar to most. The interesting thing about this sort of “game of chance” compared to something with fixed house rules like casino blackjack is that there’s no optimal strategy; what’s best for one “prisoner” is contingent on what the other does. In a rough way, this gets at why it’s not necesssarily the best option for a superior predator to always fight a weaker enemy, or why it’s not always optimal for the weaker animal to run away, at least when thing like posturing and threatening are included in the list of ...
Le Tour is underway [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-07-08 01:21:00 Since this blog gets a fair number of Eurpoean readers, posting on this topic may spark a modicum of interest. And don’t tell me it’s not a science topic, because cycling — though ostensibly a “sport” — boils down to technology (the bicyles), human physiology (the riders), and pharmacology (the juice). A reductionist might point out that this is true of many sports, but the “man-as-machine” angle is especially pronounced in a raw endurance competition like the TdF. There are no clear-cut favorites this year. Actually, the whole affair has, unfortunately, recieved a sizable infusion of high-octane cynicism in 2007. The Armstrong era ended with that rider’s seventh straight win — and final Tour — in 2005; everyone, even the 99.44% of Americans that are not cycling fans, could get behind his annual attempt to add to his streak. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by...
Jogger’s legs severed by train [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee
2007-07-07 01:37:00 After reading the post title, the first thing you should have thought was “My God, that’s terrible. I bet it happened in South Florida.” After a contemplative pause, you probably muttered in consternation, “I bet she was wearing an iPod or something.” If so, congratulations - you’re right on all counts. Local TV coverage This is obviously no joking matter, as Cheryl Ann Risse of Pompano Beach is in critical condition after tripping as she tried crossing a set of tracks near the Dixie Highway earlier today. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/131-303956/joggers_legs_severed_by_-train.php
An Exhibition of Mythic Proportions [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee R
2007-07-02 15:28:00 A friend visited from Boston this past weekend, so we took a jaunt into The City on Saturday. Our prime destination was the American Museum of Natural History where Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids is now playing as a special exhibition. The imaginary bestiary was entertaining and informative. The basis of myth was explored nicely, and provided testament to the power of human imagination when confronted with natural phenomenon. A seventeen-foot winged green dragon greeted us at the entry, and a plethora of dragon, unicorn and mermaid flavored tchotckes awaited the unsuspecting as they exited. The exhibition was divided into Creatures of the Deep, Creatures of the Earth, Creatures of the Sky, and Dragons - Creatures of Power. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/129-821492/an_exhibition_of_mythic_-propor.php
Friday Flower Porn: [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge]
2007-06-29 10:00:00 Today, small, simple, pale white, and dare I say it, almost virginal. But soon, red, swollen and sweet on the tongue. Yes, we’re talking Rosaceae fragaria, strawberries. This particular cultivar is an everbearing variety called Berry Basket. About a half dozen plants sit in two long window boxes on our elevated deck. The berries are fairly small but sweet. They’re no match for the Cabot and Cavendish June bearers in the garden, but then there’s nothing quite like a little late season fruit to perk you up. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/128-949749/friday_flower_porn_3.php-
Pro golf to implement drug testing [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Re
2007-06-25 21:06:00 The PGA, the LPGA, the European Tour and the Champions Tour (over-50 men) are all on the verge of banning, and testing for, performance-enhancing drugs, particularly steroids. Golf isn’t one of those sports one suspects is plagued by druggies. The 70-year-olds on the Champsions Tour may be on any number of prescription drugs, but I doubt testing will target Viagra, Lipitor or Cardizem. I can see steroids possibly adding a few yards to someone’s tee shot, and perhaps beta blockers might help eliminate the yips some experience when putting. But I’d rank golf somewhere between chess and synchronized swimming when it comes to doping problems. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/127-896726/pro_golf_to_implement_dr-ug_tes.php
Chimpanzee Skater
2007-06-16 00:00:00 Cool chimp skates a half-pipe, and even wipes out.
By: Funny clips
Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees
2007-05-14 20:19:00 Researchers observing wild chimpanzees in Uganda have discovered repeated instances of a mysterious and poorly understood behavior: female-led infanticide. read more Read more at BJS
Knuckles The Chimpanzee
2007-04-25 05:00:00 At right is a photo of two chimpanzees. The one standing is Knuckles, he's seven years old and he has cerebral palsy, a serious neurological disorder that affects the brain and muscles. In "Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter," New York Times writer John Noble Wilford shares the touching behavior of our closest relatives, the Chimpanzee family. "Devyn Carter of Emory described the sympathetic response to a chimp named Knuckles, who was afflicted with cerebral palsy. No fellow chimp was seen to take advantage of his disability. Even the alpha male gently groomed Knuckles." Do apes have empathy? Does Knuckles' baby-like behavior cause other apes to treat him like a baby? Is the answer a little of both? Perhaps a more essential understanding comes from pondering this: What does this brief story of caring mean for you?More on Knuckles:Wilford: Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter - iraqwaritObserved in the wild and tested in captivity, chimpanzees invite comparison with humans, their c...
By: Small and Big
ha ha! Chimpanzee madness!
2007-03-24 00:32:00 So if you like it and you know japanese. Maybe you can help me out by giving me a heads up to what certain parts of the conversation is about. But, anyway, this episode featured Hiroshi Tamaki. He's on to promote Nodame Cantabile. I laughed at this just because there was a funny chimp doing funny stuff. Sometimes because the voiceover actor's voice was just too funny. But just because I couldn't really get involved with the semi-serious part of the conversation, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy this video. It's a pretty creative show and that chimpanzee is seriously well-trained. I WANT ONE NOW! :x ::squee.::
By: Mochiron
Research: Chimpanzees hunting with tools
2007-02-26 04:04:01 We normally believe that some of the distinguishing characteristics of mankind are the ability to effectively communicate, advanced mental capability, the ability to use tools and having a hand with an opposing thumb. In a recent discovery, a researcher studying chimpanzees in Africa has discovered that chimapanzees have some rudimentary capabilities in using tools during ...
Immaculate Chimpanzee Conception
2007-01-23 11:30:01 The male chimpanzees at a sanctuary called Chimp Haven in Louisiana apparently did some monkeying around and got one of the females pregnant. The thing that has the staff stumped is that all seven of the male chimps have had vasectomies. Workers are collecting hair samples from the males for...
By: Hammer Uncut
November 29, 1961: Enos the Orbiting Chimpanzee
2006-11-30 00:51:02 Forty-five years ago today, NASA launched Enos the chimpanzee into orbit aboard a Mercury Atlas rocket. Although the Soviet Union had already complete...
Chimpanzee Skater
1970-01-01 00:59:00 Cool chimp skates a half-pipe, and even wipes out.
By: Googly Foogly
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