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Africa: Chimpanzee Genes Have Changed Over Time to Suit Local Conditions - New Study: [The Conversation Africa] Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives, sharing over 98% of our DNA. They are endangered, with fewer than 250,000 left and an annual decline of between 1.5% and 6%. This is due to habitat destruction, hunting and infectious diseases, among other threats. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdZ #Chimpanzees #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeConservation #Genetics #HabitatDestruction

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Africa: Inside the Sex Lives of Chimpanzees - It's About Much More Than Just Reproduction: [The Conversation Africa] Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant alpha male. One day he was separated from the group for some health checkups along with a young, confident male, Vis, and Vis's ally, Zsabu. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJT4 #Chimpanzees #AnimalBehavior #WildlifeConservation #Africa #Nature

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Guinea greenlights gold mine in habitat of critically endangered chimpanzees news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Mongabay Environmental News · Guinea greenlights gold mine in habitat of critically endangered chimpanzeesThe government of Guinea has issued an environmental compliance certificate to an Australian company to go ahead with its plan to mine gold within an area that’s home to critically endangered western chimpanzees. In January, Guinea’s Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development accepted the environmental and social impact assessment that Predictive Discovery had commissioned […]
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Cosmic Librarian

Peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, study suggests

While watching a group of captive chimpanzees for her graduate research, Ena Onishi noticed something odd about the primates.

"They seemed to have a tendency to urinate around the same time," said Onishi, a wildlife researcher at Kyoto University. "It reminded me of some human behaviors of going to the bathroom together, and got me thinking 'could this be one of those contagious behaviors?' "

The family that pees together stays together?

#chimpanzees #behavior

npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-52629

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🦧🌟💛🌏🌐💁*LEARN MORE ABOUT Dame Jane Morris Goodall!👉💁🏿‍♀️ DBE born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934)formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to👉

#JANE #GOODALL #CHIMPANZEES

Jane Goodall - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goo

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Palm Oil Detectives

#News: 🐒 #Chimpanzees’ remarkable tool use and behaviours may evolve over generations, showing early stages of cumulative culture, new research reveals. 🛠️🌿

But their survival is at risk! Chimpanzees, great #apes, and many smaller #monkey species face extinction due to habitat destruction caused by palm oil plantations. 🌴🔥

Take action: Protect their future by choosing wisely. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🔥⛔️

🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2024

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