| 8/5/2008 — Report: 125,000 gorillas found in African zone |
| "Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population."—Associated Press |
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| 8/5/2008 — Primates 'face extinction crisis' |
| "A global review of the world's primates says 48% of species face extinction, an outlook described as 'depressing' by conservationists."—BBC News |
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| 7/22/2008 — Seven Chimpanzees are Rescued After Two Decades of Abuse |
| "Seven Chimpanzees were rescued from a lab in Pennsylvania where they lived for the past 20 years. They now have a new home in Cle Elum."—KNDO.com |
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| 7/18/2008 — Apes depart Hollywood for research centre |
| "Filmmakers looking for an ape may be left scratching their heads after Hollywood's sole supplier of orangutans decided to quit renting them out and send six of them to an Iowa sanctuary, the facility's owner said on Wednesday."—Reuters Africa |
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| 7/18/2008 — Ex-Memphian protects Africa's chimps |
| "Brown has leading role at Jane Goodall Institute."—The Commercial Appeal |
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| 6/16/2008 — Dr Jane Goodall DBE joins the Dr Hadwen Trust at European Parliament to call for animal experiments to be replaced |
| "Dr Jane Goodall DBE joins the Dr Hadwen Trust at European Parliament to call for animal experiments to be replaced, and proposes a Nobel Prize in ethical alternatives."—politics.co.uk |
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| 5/30/2008 — My view of 'normal' has been shattered |
| "Its official title was the Jane Goodall Institute's Global Youth Summit on Social and Environmental Justice Issues. In plainer words, it was 100 youth -- including myself and five others representing Canada -- aged 16 to 24 coming together from around the world last month for a week in Orlando, Fla."—GuelphMercury.com |
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| 5/30/2008 — Dr Jane Goodall DBE joins the Dr Hadwen Trust at European Parliament to call for animal experiments to be replaced |
| "Dr Jane Goodall DBE joins the Dr Hadwen Trust at European Parliament to call for animal experiments to be replaced, and proposes a Nobel Prize in ethical alternatives."—politics.co.uk |
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| 5/20/2008 — Local youth leader brings back ‘message of hope’ from Jane Goodall’s Global Youth Summit |
| "Eighteen year old ecology student Jade Cawthray, from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, recently returned from a life-changing five-day trip to Lake Buena Vista, Florida."—Cambridge Network |
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| 5/12/2008 — A limited sanctuary |
| "A study of two Fauna Foundation chimps, just published in a scientific journal, concluded that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, just like human captives. It is a far cry from Dr. Doolittle; more like a TV prison drama, Ms. Grow said."—National Post |
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| 4/30/2008 — Orangutan goes fishing with sharpened stick |
| "In a sight never previously witnessed an orangutan uses a sharpened stick to try and spear fish."—Telegraph.co.uk |
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| 4/29/2008 — Who's Laughing Now? |
| "Long maligned as nasty scavengers, hyenas turn out to be protective parents and accomplished hunters. And new research is revealing that their social status may even be determined in the womb."—Smithsonian Magazine |
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| 4/23/2008 — Animal Kingdom Celebrates A Disney Decade |
| "Hundreds of cast members who have been with the park since it opened joined young adults from around the world for a global youth summit hosted by renowned animal expert Jane Goodall."—Central Florida News 13 |
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| 4/14/2008 — Animals and Us, Not So Far Apart |
| "...an explosion in animal research is showing that many components of human thought are shared with other species. Evidence shows that parrots can understand numbers, crows make tools, elephants and hyenas live in complex, rule-governed societies, and chimpanzees make sense of the world in many of the same ways we do. The implication is indisputable: Humans are not unique."—The Washington Post |
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| 4/11/2008 — The Poseur's Guide to Jane Goodall |
| "At 74 years young, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall is as passionate about chimps as she was the first day she crouched in the jungle to observe them, nearly 50 years ago."—Calgary Herald |
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| 4/10/2008 — Mystery of Rising Ape Heart Disease |
| "heart disease is killing adult male apes in zoos around the U.S. Male gorillas in their 20s and 30s are getting sick and, in some cases, suddenly dying of various heart ailments."—ABC News |
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| 4/8/2008 — Tanzania: Arusha Youth for Jane Goodall Summit in USA |
| "An outstanding performer from the Global Service Corps Tanzania's exceptional youth 'Counterparts' has been chosen to represent the country at a Global Youth Summit in Orlando, Florida later this month."—the Arusha Times |
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| 4/1/2008 — Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program helps kids get involved |
| "Panda miti. Plant trees. That is what Jane Goodall hopes to instill in the next generation through her global Roots & Shoots youth environmental conservation program."—Journal & Courier |
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| 3/31/2008 — Gentle voice delivers a powerful message |
| "As she does nearly 300 days each year in cities throughout the world, Goodall conveyed a message filled with hope in a world that faces serious consequences from overconsumption and a failing attempt to maintain unsustainable lifestyles."—The Madison Courier |
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| 3/28/2008 — Who's Bad? Chimps Figure It Out By Observation |
| "Chimpanzees have sophisticated social skills...Could they have a system for forming reputation judgments across a wide variety of contexts like humans?"—ScienceDaily.com |
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| 3/27/2008 — Humans 'learnt to gamble from chimps' |
| "Humans may have inherited their propensity to gamble from chimpanzees, scientists say." —Telegraph.co.uk |
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| 3/27/2008 — USAID Helps Bring Eco-Tourism to Uganda |
| "Henrietta Fore, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), took part in the grand opening of the Uganda's Kaniyo Pabidi Chimp Trekking Facility in Budongo Forest this month." —USAID |
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| 3/25/2008 — Scientists Say Oldest Primate Walked Upright |
| "Scientists have concluded that the world's oldest primate fossil known as the Millennium Ancestor belongs to a group that includes prehistoric humans rather than apes."—VOANews.com |
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| 3/19/2008 — Cameroon's bushmeat dilemma |
| "Food writer Stefan Gates investigates the appetite for bushmeat that is threatening to wipe out many endangered species in Cameroon."—BBC News |
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| 3/18/2008 — Almost Human |
| "On the savannas of Senegal, chimpanzees are hunting bush babies with spearlike sticks. This hothouse of chimp "technology" offers clues to our own evolution." —National Geographic |
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| 3/18/2008 — Chimp viewing to start in Budongo |
| "BUDONGO forest reserve will soon become a top eco-tourism centre following the taming of chimpanzees and the provision of tourists’ accommodation." —The New Vision |
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| 3/18/2008 — Rwanda conservation effort to link isolated chimps to distant forest |
| "A group of some 15 chimpanzees isolated in a pocket of Rwandan rain forest will have a greater range – and, thus, greater chances for survival – thanks to one of Africa’s most ambitious forest restoration and ecological research efforts ever." —EurekAlert! |
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| 3/18/2008 — Campaign to ban chimps from ads |
| "The primatologists, who include the world-famous Jane Goodall, have attacked the advertising industry for exploiting chimps as "frivolous subhumans" who can be viewed as objects of fun and ridicule for the sake of commercial gain."—The New Zealand Herald |
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| 3/12/2008 — Jane Goodall Speaks At Education Conference |
| "Legendary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall used her keynote address to a full ballroom of educators at the third-annual Teaching and Learning Celebration on March 7 to let them know that she considered their occupations the highest calling, and to encourage them to look to Roots and Shoots..." —Inside Fordham |
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| 3/5/2008 — Rwanda: ORTPN Moves to Curb Wildlife Domestication |
| "The Office of Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN) has stepped up efforts to curb increasing cases of domestication of wild animals and birds." —The New Times |
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| 3/4/2008 — Inside new £6m home that's got residents going completely ape |
| "The gloomy light, soaring temperatures and sticky humidity are exactly the conditions that chimpanzees experience in the Budongo Forest in Uganda.
But now they are being recreated in Scotland's capital as part of a new £6 million exhibit at Edinburgh Zoo." —NEWS.scotsman.com |
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| 2/25/2008 — Students Encouraged To Get Involved, Make a Difference |
| “Each one of us can make a difference. That was the message videographer Bill Wallauer and photographer Kristin Mosher gave students at the Fulton Junior High School Monday afternoon." —Fulton Daily News |
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| 2/25/2008 — Chimps eat dirt and leaves to fight off malaria |
| "A new study has discovered that chimpanzees can fight off malaria by swallowing mouthfuls of dirt and leaves, which act as "self-medication" for the animals." —newKerala.com |
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| 2/25/2008 — Can Chimps Talk? |
| "Humans may be the great communicators of the natural world, but we're hardly the only ones. Plenty of animals trade signals with one another--calls to love, calls to war." —Forbes |
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| 2/21/2008 — ADI: Europe moves closer to ban on use of apes and wild caught monkeys in experiments |
| "At a meeting at the European Parliament yesterday, Commissioner Dimas gave his strongest indication yet that the use of apes and most wild caught monkeys in experiments would be banned under the forthcoming revision of EC Directive 86/609." — politics.co.uk |
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| 2/21/2008 — Rare cooperation to save gorillas |
| "Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa." — BBC News |
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| 12/4/2007 — Young Chimp Beats College Students - AP |
| "Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won." |
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| 10/4/2007 — Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests - Reuters |
| "Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming." |
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| 10/4/2007 — Sierra Leone steps up efforts to save chimpanzees — Agence France-Presse |
"Authorities and wildlife activists in Sierra Leone on Tuesday stepped up efforts to save chimpanzees from extinction in the impoverished west African state where they are traded for meat and as pets.
The government and the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone launched a campaign that will see the robust enforcement of an amended 35-year old law under which the illegal hunting of the primates will attract tough penalties." |
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| 9/6/2007 — Does the Universe Have a Purpose? |
| Dr. Goodall comments on "A Templeton Conversation" of the John Templeton Foundation. |
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| 8/16/2007 — Four mountain gorillas shot dead in Congo park |
| KINSHASA (Reuters) - Four rare mountain gorillas have been shot dead in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) said on Thursday. |
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| 7/31/2007 — Monkeys Don't Go For Easy Pickings: Study Shows Primates Consider More Than Distance When Searching For Food |
| Animals’ natural foraging decisions give an insight into their cognitive abilities, and primates do not automatically choose the easy option. Instead, they appear to decide where to feed based on the quality of the resources available and the effect on their social group, rather than simply selecting the nearest food available. |
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| 7/5/2007 — HIV's Origin: Pick Your Evil |
| Those who are trying to discover more about the origin of HIV in humans tend to go looking in the forests in central Africa. Researchers may get up at dawn hoping to grab chimpanzee faeces that fall from the trees. Antibodies in such excrement have suggested that the virus jumped into humans from a Cameroonian population of chimps early in the last century. The virus probably made the leap at least twice more since. A separate group of chimps in Cameroon has infected a handful of locals with a nonpandemic version of HIV. Waste from wild gorillas suggests they are probably responsible for a third form of the virus. |
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| 7/5/2007 — Chimps beat us to that human touch |
| The roots of human altruism may go back far further than had been realized, according to a new study showing that chimpanzees are also capable of helping others without any thought of personal reward. |
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| 6/5/2007 — NIH stops chimp breeding —The Scientist |
| "The National Institutes of Health has announced it will permanently stop breeding government-owned research chimpanzees, citing the cost of caring for chimps over their lifetime." |
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| 6/4/2007 — Great apes facing climate peril —BBC News |
| "Great apes are facing an 'inevitable crisis' arising from climate change, a leading conservationist has warned." |
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| 5/2/2007 — Like Humans, Chimp Males Cooperate With Kin and Non-Kin Alike —National Geographic News |
| "Why humans cooperate and why we select particular collaborators are questions scientists have puzzled over for years. Now research into the behavior of chimpanzees—our closest confirmed genetic relations—is providing new insights into the ways kinship affects cooperation." |
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| 4/20/2007 — Evidence of chimps' intelligence grows —International Herald Tribune |
| "For some time, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have known that chimp ancestors were the last line of today's apes to diverge from the branch that led to humans, probably 6 million, maybe 4 million years ago. More recent examination shows that despite profound differences in the two species, just a 1.23 percent difference in their genes separates Homo sapiens from chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes.
And certain similarities between the two species, scientists say, go beyond expressive faces and opposable thumbs." |
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| 4/17/2007 — Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter —The New York Times |
| "Jane Goodall’s studies of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Northern Tanzania, starting in the 1960s, changed primatology." |
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| 3/19/2007 — Bushmeat: Curse of the Monkey's Paw —ABC News |
| "Experts estimate that about 500 million wild animals, from cane rats to elephants, have been killed in Central Africa for their meat. In the Congo Basin alone, this 'bushmeat' is consumed on the order of 1 to 5 million metric tons, or the equivalent of 9 to 45 billion quarter pounders." |
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| 3/15/2007 — Primate Hunting Reaches Crisis Point in Latin America —SPIEGEL ONLINE |
| "Monkey numbers in Latin America have fallen dramatically in recent years as primate hunting reaches unsustainable levels. Most are used for food, but an increasing number of souvenirs are also produced using dead monkeys." |
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| 3/6/2007 — Illegal Loggers Mutilating Congolese Forests — Environment News Service |
| "Millions of acres of the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon are being illegally logged, nongovernmental organizations report." |
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| 2/23/2007 — Chimps make weapons for hunting — Washington Post |
| "Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans." |
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| 12/11/2006 — Chimps Name Foods With Grunts -- Discovery News
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| "Whales do it. Chickens do too. And now chimpanzees can be added to the list of animals that appear to produce distinctive word-like calls for specific things, according to a study in this month’s Animal Behavior." |
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| 12/11/2006 — Of chimps and humans — Boston Globe |
| "In order to protect the chimps in the forests of central and western Africa, including an estimated 100 living in tiny Gombe Park, the Jane Goodall Institute hopes its 46 years of research will continue to educate people and raise money. But the institute is also focusing on the chimps' neighbors: Organizers believe that if they can improve the lives of villagers, the villagers will leave the chimps and the forests alone." |
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| 6/6/2006 — Portland teen is honored by his hero in "Jane Goodall's Heroes" — Seattle Times |
| "The charismatic Portland teen worked with the administration at the Oregon Primate Center to improve the living conditions for monkeys used in medical testing. He helps zoos build better primate exhibits and has become an expert on garter snakes, the nonvenomous slitherers that call this region home."
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| 4/21/2006 — Dr. Jane Goodall's Earth Day Message of Hope — Nature Conservancy |
| "We live in dark times: we are destroying Mother Earth and many people have lost hope. So it is important to highlight all that is being done to heal our planet." |
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| 4/12/2006 — Project sweet dreams: students help to make life comfortable for chimpanzees — New Mexican |
| '"Before (Jaybee) was rescued, he would make his night nest out of monkey chow," Rosenman told the students.'
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| 4/10/2006 — Why Are Some Animals So Smart? — Scientific American |
| "The unusual behavior of orangutans in a Sumatran swamp suggests a surprising answer" |
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| 3/23/2006 — Chimps Command To Conquer An Itch — science-a-go-go |
| "To me that is one of the lessons of this little paper." Mitani further claims that: "our closest living relatives may be capable of mental-state attribution, making inferences about the knowledge of others."
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| 3/15/2006 — Most Human-chimp Differences Due To Gene Regulation - Not Genes — Medical News Today |
| "The vast differences between humans and chimpanzees are due more to changes in gene regulation than differences in individual genes themselves, researchers from Yale, the University of Chicago, and the Hall Institute in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, argue in the 9 March 2006 issue of the journal Nature."
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| 1/31/2006 — Baboons seek “comfort” after deaths in the family — World Science |
| "When a lion killed Sierra the baboon, her mother reacted in a way that one could call human-like: she looked to friends for support, say researchers who studied the animals.
The scientists found that baboons physiologically respond to bereavement in ways similar to humans, with an increase in stress hormones called glucocorticoids." |
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| 1/30/2006 — Red Alert for Red Apes: DNA shows big losses for Borneo orangutans — Science News |
| "Because they hang out in nests high up in trees and lead relatively solitary lives, orangutans have challenged scientists trying to study them. Now, orangutans face their own challenge, and it's urgent." |
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| 12/6/2005 — Lucky King Kong Is Digital — Village Voice
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| "It’s not so much how the animals are treated on sets—the only time their welfare is governed by the AHA—but how they’re trained and what happens to them in the decades they can be expected to live after the filming's over." |
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| 11/28/2005 — A Conversation with the "Chimpanzee Lady": Jane Goodall on Animals, the Environment and her Life |
| Democracy Now broadcast an extended conversation with Jane Goodall. She discusses her life, the environment, war, and her new book "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating." [includes rush transcript] |
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| 10/21/2005 — Chimp "Dinner Conversation" Proof of Ape Speech? - National Geographic News |
| Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence that chimpanzees speak to each other about objects in their environment. |
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| 10/6/2005 — How Leah proves we are mad — Times Online (UK) |
| "Reluctance to admit that other primates can think is, at least in part, the result of a primitive desire to be associated with angels rather than apes. We want to be an exclusive species — superior to the “animal kingdom” over which (or whom) the Bible says man was given “dominion”." |
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| 9/23/2005 — From its Headquarters to far-flung outposts, UN marks International Peace Day — UN News Centre |
| "From its Headquarters complex in New York, where Secretary-General Kofi Annan solemnly rang the Peace Bell, to its furthest outposts on the front-line of conflict prevention to cyberspace, the United Nations today celebrated the annual International Day of Peace with ceremonies around the world." |
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| 9/6/2005 — Nations focus on great ape crisis — BBC News |
| "Ministers from 23 countries in Africa and south-east Asia are meeting to discuss measures to save the world's great apes from extinction." |
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| 9/1/2005 — First Chimp Fossils Found; Humans Were Neighbors - National Geographic
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| Researchers have found the first reported chimpanzee fossils in Kenya's Rift Valley, providing the first physical evidence that chimpanzees coexisted with early human ancestors, known as hominins. |
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| 9/1/2005 — Chimp, human DNA comparison finds vast similarities, key differences - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| An international team of 67 scientists, led by a top genome researcher in Seattle, may have moved us a few steps closer toward figuring out precisely what in the genetic code makes us human -- or, at least, not chimpanzees. |
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| 9/1/2005 — Ebola virus threatens Central Africa's apes - Mail & Guardian Online |
| Conservationists say the dreaded Ebola virus, along with decades of hunting and logging, is putting some ape species on the brink of extinction in Central Africa.
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| 8/16/2005 — Quarter of primates face abyss - BBC News |
| The Earth's most successful primates - humans - are on the brink of killing off nearly a quarter of their 625 cousin species, a report has said. |
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| 8/11/2005 — If you ever feel like killing your neighbour, a chimp can tell you why - The Times Online
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| What does science teach us about war? An insight comes from Jane Goodall’s seminal study of the battles of the Kasakela chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. During her study the Kasakela chimpanzees, growing too large in number, split in two — a smaller Kasakela group and a new Kahama group emerged. To start with, the groups shared the rain forest peaceably, and when their members met they were pleasant. They were old friends. |
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| 8/10/2005 — Ads pulled after claims of chimp abuse — Chimpanzee Collaboratory
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June 30, 2005
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Robert Iafolla
HomeUSA Warehouse canceled a recent advertising campaign featuring a chimpanzee after the company learned that the animals are often beaten behind the scenes, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said.
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| 8/5/2005 — Animal instinct for finding treatment - The New Zealand Herald |
| Chausiku, an adult female chimpanzee, wasn't well. She moved painfully slowly, lagging behind the rest of her group, and later lay listlessly on her bed of branches.
Her appetite seemed to have vanished, except when it came to one particular plant: Vernonia amygdalina, or bitter leaf. Plucking the youngest stems, she removed the leaves and bark before chewing on the inner pith. By the next afternoon she was up and running, apparently having made a complete recovery.
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| 8/5/2005 — Lawyer Fights for Critters' Rights - The National Law Journal
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| On a cold and rainy morning in April, Bruce Wagman drove up to a one-story brick house outside Sanford, N.C.
With him were two police cruisers and several animal control vans. TV crews were waiting out front to film Wagman's mission: freeing 200 dogs. |
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| 8/3/2005 — American heroes head for happy retirement at Chimp Haven - Telegraph Online
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| Rita and Teresa served the United States government with distinction for four decades. They played their part in its embryonic space programme and then later made an important contribution to medical research.
Now, as they reach their dotage, America is doing its bit for them. The inseparable duo were the first residents of a thoroughly modern retirement home built deep in the woods of north-western Louisiana.
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| 7/29/2005 — Reflections of Primate Minds: Mirror images strike monkeys as special - Science News Online |
| When a capuchin monkey looks at its own image in a mirror, something strange happens. The diminutive creature reacts not as if it sees a stranger, as many researchers had assumed. Instead, the reflection gets treated as a special phenomenon, generally eliciting curiosity and friendly overtures from females and a mix of distress and fear from males, a new study finds.
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| 6/10/2005 — Q & A: Don't monkey with Jane - U.S. News & World Report |
| People all over the country say that their furry (and sometimes not so furry) friends understand how they're feeling and what they're saying. Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk (Animal Planet, June 12, 8 p.m. et) explores those relationships, with insights from the woman who gave us a new understanding of animal language. |
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| 6/8/2005 — Dolphin Moms Teach Daughters to Use Tools - National Geographic News |
| When researchers first saw something strange on the snout of a dolphin in Shark Bay, Western Australia, they thought it was a massive tumor. Now they say it provides the first evidence of a tool-use culture in marine mammals. |
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| 6/2/2005 — Animals and us: Close encounters (interview with Dr. Jane Goodall) - New Scientist |
| Jane Goodall started working with chimpanzees in 1960. She became director of the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania in 1967. All her research was conducted there, and her books include In the Shadow of Man (1971), The Chimpanzees of Gombe (1986), and The Ten Trusts: What we must do to care for the animals we love (2002) |
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| 6/1/2005 — Ape portraits that ask you questions- This is Local London |
| Grief, anger, childlike trust and even forgiveness. These are the emotions you read on the giant faces of 30 orphaned apes in a new photography exhibition at the Natural History Museum. |
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| 5/31/2005 — Scientists dismayed by British Airways animal ban - The Guardian |
| British Airways has been accused of setting back medical research in the UK by enforcing a blanket ban on the transport of live animals for use in experiments. Government officials and leading scientists have expressed their dismay to the airline about the toughening of its stance which they fear will send the wrong message to scientists and pharmaceutical companies involved in animal testing, and could encourage extremists who have been running a high-profile campaign to shut down the live animal trade. |
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| 4/12/2005 — Last of the great apes are dying out - Times Online |
| Humanity's closest living relatives could soon be a distant memory. One in four primate species is in imminent danger of extinction, according to a report released today. |
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| 3/24/2005 — What does Hollywood do when a screen chimp turns nasty? Shoot it dead and call in a cartoon — Times Online
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| "HOLLYWOOD is a tough town — even for chimpanzees. With computer animation putting trained chimps out of business, concern is growing about what to do with California’s large population of 'retired' animal stars."
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| 3/22/2005 — Farm animals 'need emotional TLC' — BBC News |
| "Farm animals have feelings which should be respected and catered for, academics at a London, UK, meeting have said."
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| 3/11/2005 — Expert highlights mobile phone threat to great apes — ABC Online |
| "The chances are now high that there's at least one mobile phone in your household, quite possibly more. So there's a possibility that you have played your small part in driving the great apes, chimpanzees and gorillas, for instance, closer to extinction. You don't see the connection? Ian Redmond says there is one."
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| 3/2/2005 — The secret life of moody cows — Sunday Times
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| "ONCE they were a byword for mindless docility. But cows have a secret mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited over intellectual challenges, scientists have found." |
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| 2/25/2005 — Hollywood's Forgotten A-List — Chimpanzee Collaboratory
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| "This Sunday during the Oscars, the Careerbuilder.com chimpanzee advertising campaign that kicked off during the Super Bowl continues with a new spot featuring dressed up chimps at the water cooler. It’s the next spot in a campaign to include five additional TV ads throughout 2005, all with chimpanzees who come from an industry where abuse can be common practice." |
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| 2/16/2005 — Pepsi TV Ad with Chimp Draws Boycott Threat — Environment News Service |
| "PRESTON, UK, February, 15, 2005 (ENS) - Primate protection organizations around the world are calling for a boycott of Pepsi products over the use of a young chimpanzee in Pepsi's latest TV commercial. The ad, Monkey Taxi, features the four year old chimp driving a taxi." |
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| 2/11/2005 — Scientists say they've been told to withhold species findings — Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| "WASHINGTON -- Scientists in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they've been forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species, according to a survey released by two environmental groups." |
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| 2/11/2005 — Group pressures University of Iowa to halt animal research — WCF Courier.com |
| "IOWA CITY (AP) --- A national animal rights group announced a campaign Thursday to pressure the University of Iowa to halt invasive brain studies on macaque monkeys and other animal research." |
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| 12/21/2004 — Pygmy Chimpanzees Almost Extinct From Being Hunted — Bloomberg |
| "The pygmy chimpanzee, one of man's closest relatives, is being hunted to the brink of extinction, a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature found."
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| 12/1/2004 — Paleontologists say fossil may be ancestor to great apes — CBC News |
| "A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday. " |
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| 11/22/2004 — Young apes 'brighter than human children' — The Scotsman |
| "Young apes are smarter than their human cousins, scientists have claimed. A team from the University of St. Andrews discovered that chimpanzees acted more intelligently and were better at problem-solving than pre-school children."
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| 11/12/2004 — Fisheries link to bushmeat trade — BBC News |
| "Scientists now have hard data to show European fishing policies are driving some of the bushmeat trade in Africa." |
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| 11/8/2004 — Aids warning over bushmeat trade — BBC News
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| "A study of African hunters has shown that a virus similar to HIV has passed from apes to humans from bushmeat of the kind that is being sold illegally in the UK." |
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| 11/1/2004 — Great apes face extinction — The Guardian
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| "Western chimpanzees have disappeared from Benin, Gambia and Togo and fewer than 1,000 remain in Senegal, Ghana and Guinea-Bissau. The UN environmental agency has warned that we are destroying a bridge to our origins - humans share more than 96 per cent of their DNA with great apes." |
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| 10/27/2004 — Chimps Shown Using Not Just a Tool but a "Tool Kit" - National Geographic News |
| Researchers in the Republic of Congo documented chimpanzees using a variety of tools to fish for termites. The "tool kits" are some of the most complex instruments chimpanzees have been observed using in the wild. |
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| 10/13/2004 — New mission for chimps' champion — The Guardian |
| "She has devoted her career to saving primates. Now scientist and campaigner Jane Goodall is 70 and embroiled in the toughest fight of her life." |
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| 10/4/2004 — The Queen of Gombe:The legendary researcher raises her voice to help chimpanzees — and their human cousins — Time Europe |
| Time magazine's European edition has named Dr. Jane Goodall as one of its 2004 heroes in the magazine's special "tribute to 29 dazzling people who shine a light on the world." |
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| 9/27/2004 — Ethics as the argument — Newsday |
| New questions are raised about whether the gains of animal research are worth the ethical uncertainties. |
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| 9/9/2004 — Study: Chimps Recognize Aping — ABC Science Online |
| "Australian researcher Dr Mark Nielsen and colleagues at the University of Queensland report they have the first evidence that animals other than humans can recognise when they're being imitated."
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| 9/2/2004 — Goodall Group Calls for Curtain on Ape "Actors"--National Geographic News |
| Chimpanzees make great on-screen comedians, but famed primatologist Jane Goodall is launching a public-awareness campaign urging the entertainment industry to ban great ape actors.
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| 8/19/2004 — New Antimalarial Compound Identified Through Self-Medicative Behavior of Wild Chimps — Medical News Today |
| "French and Ugandan researchers have discovered novel antimalarial compounds by observing the behavior of wild chimps. Their findings appear in the August 2004 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy." |
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| 8/9/2004 — Bush-meat trade breeds new HIV — New Scientist
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"The HIV virus has jumped from primates to people on at least seven separate occasions in recent history, not twice as is commonly thought.
And people in Cameroon are showing up with symptoms of HIV, but are testing negative for both the virus and its primate equivalent SIV, the virus from which HIV is thought to have evolved. That suggests that new strains of an HIV-like virus are circulating in wild animals and infecting people who eat them, sparking fears that such strains could fuel an already disastrous global HIV pandemic."
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| 8/5/2004 — Program teaches
gardening to young — Ypsilanti Courier |
| "The Ypsilanti Roots & Shoots is built on the premise behind the success of the Perry Learning Garden, which encourages young people to learn more about nutrition." |
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| 7/19/2004 — Growth Study Of Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Assumptions About Early Humans — Science Daily |
| "A new study of wild chimpanzee growth rates, published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/), suggests that early human evolution may have taken a different course than is widely believed."
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| 7/19/2004 — When the Children Ask, “Where have All the Animals Gone?” What will We Say? — Common Dreams |
| "Worldwide, we are collectively wringing the necks of thousands of species, not only denying the beauty and the right of these species to exist, but unexplainably and arrogantly ripping the rivets out of the machinery needed for human survival." |
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| 6/21/2004 — Saving the Apes — WISCTV.com |
| "A 19-year-old Salt Lake City man is on a mission to try to shut down eight primate research centers across the country, including the one operating in Madison." |
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| 6/15/2004 — Health Risks From Bushmeat May Reach U.S. Shores — Pacific News Service |
| Butterflied baby gorilla, smoked chimpanzee hands and feet, cutlets of elephant trunk -- these are just a few of the offerings on display at the bushmeat market in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital. And they may be coming to a store or restaurant near you. |
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| 6/14/2004 — Chimps 'extinct within 50 years' — The Scotsman |
| Nona Gandleman, the director of communications at the internationally renowned Jane Goodall Institute which has been researching chimpanzee behaviour for more than 40 years, said: "Some estimates put the time left for chimpanzees at less than 50 years, so this really is a crisis which needs to be addressed now. Chimpanzees still teach us so much about ourselves, and research still yields information that helps us understand human behaviour." |
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| 4/5/2004 — New light shed on chimp genome - BBC News Worldwide |
| "A comparison of the chimp and human genomes casts new light on why the two species are so different despite having very similar genetic code." |
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| 4/1/2004 — Fears for great ape as numbers fall by 70% — The Guardian |
| "In 10 years, the world population of eastern lowland gorillas has fallen by 70%, researchers said yesterday." |
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| 3/23/2004 — Gorilla study gives social clues — BBC News
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| "The western gorilla lives peacefully in human-like social groups, a study shows."
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| 3/9/2004 — Earth's Cloud Forests Threatened |
| "Pressures are mounting on one of the Earth's rarest and most distinctive types of forest, scientists have found." |
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| 3/1/2004 — Where is the evidence that animal research benefits humans? — bmj.com (British Medical Journal) |
| A scientific article that argues much animal research into potential treatments for humans is wasted because it is poorly conducted and not evaluated through systematic reviews. |
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| 3/1/2004 — Africa Chimp Expert Extends "Path Goodall Blazed" — National Geographic News |
| "As director of field conservation at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, Lonsdorf focuses her research on tool use and infant development. She continues to be amazed by the similarity in traits between the primates and humans."
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| 2/17/2004 — Goodall Group Calls for Curtain on Ape "Actors" — National Geographic News |
| ""The time has come to move beyond the misuse of creatures who are vulnerable to our exploitation, intentional or not, precisely because they are so like us," wrote Goodall in a letter to the Hollywood community in October 2003." |
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| 2/12/2004 — New Evidence Suggests That Monkey Thought Extinct Still Exists — Science Daily |
| "COLUMBUS, Ohio – After years of searching for a rare African primate, anthropologist Scott McGraw and his colleagues believed that the Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey, Procolobus badius waldroni, was probably extinct. They had written a paper in 2000 saying so." |
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1/13/2004 — Orang-utans 'may die out by 2025' —
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| "The orang-utan, Asia's "wild man of the forests", could disappear in just 20 years, a campaign group believes." |
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| 12/8/2003 — We should give a monkey's — The Guardian
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| "The government is backing research on non-human primates for economic reasons, to the detriment of public health." |
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| 5/20/2003 — Some are more equal — The Independent |
| "Why do we insist that rights to life, liberty and protection from torture be confined to humans?" A commentary by Peter Singer. |
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| 5/20/2003 — Chimps genetically close to humans — BBC News
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| "Chimpanzees are so closely related to humans that they should properly be considered as members of the human family, according to new genetic research." |
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| 5/6/2003 — Elusive African Apes: Giant Chimps or New Species? — National Geographic News |
| "A mysterious group of apes found in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa has scientists and conservationist scratching their heads. The apes nest on the ground like gorillas but have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees." |
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| 5/6/2003 — Goodall named Global Environmental Citizen for 2003 — Harvard University Gazette |
| "The award, given at an afternoon ceremony at the New England Aquarium's Imax theater in Boston, recognizes Goodall's lifetime of work, both in groundbreaking studies of East Africa's chimpanzees and as an advocate and leader of global movements aimed at helping humans live cooperatively with the environment."
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| 4/7/2003 — Ebola Spurs Fears of Looming Ape Extinction — National Geographic News |
| "For more than a year, conservationists in equatorial Africa have witnessed an Ebola epidemic burn a deadly trail through great apes at the heart of their range." |
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| 4/3/2003 — 'Help me save my chimps' — Guardian Unlimited/The Observer
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| "Primate expert Jane Goodall fears that the chimps she studied for years at Tanzania's Gombe Park are perilously close to extinction, hit by habitat loss, inbreeding and disease." |
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| 3/19/2003 — University Chimp Amazes Scientists with Own 'Words' — Telegraph.co.uk
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| "A chimpanzee has challenged the widely held view that animals do not have language by making up its own words from scratch."
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| 3/19/2003 — How Great Apes at Play Backdate Origins of Man — Telegraph.co.uk |
| "Orang-utans at work and play in the wild have proved to scientists that the origin of human-like culture goes back at least 14 million years - seven million years earlier than thought." |
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| 2/11/2003 — PBS "Global Tribe" Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall
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| “Dr. Jane Goodall on Working with Children and Helping Connect People with their Roots” |
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