Great apes
African Great Apes Are Naturally Infected with Polyomaviruses Closely Related to Merkel Cell Polyomavirus
... Sample collection and DNA isolation. Necropsy samples (spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, thymus, lung, liver, intestine, muscle, heart, pancreas, blood, urine; n ⫽ 88) were collected from 29 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ...
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Evolution of Nuclear Integrations of the Mitochondrial Genome in Great Apes and their Potential as Molecular Markers
... Several pieces of evidence point to the possibility that previous analyses based on humans have underestimated the rate of insertion in other great apes. Firstly, humans are known to have reduced genetic ...
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Guidelines for consistent cardiovascular post mortem examination, sampling and reporting of lesions in European zoo housed great apes
... about great ape cardiovascular ...the Great Ape Heart Project using a protocol developed by their pathology ...into great ape cardiovascular disease ...the great ape heart across ...
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Disentangling great apes’ decoy effect bias in a food choice task
... with great apes’ food preferences. We presented apes with two target items, grape and banana, and a third item, the decoy, which was either a smaller grape or a smaller piece of ...that apes’ ...
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Intuitive optics : what great apes infer from mirrors and shadows
... that great apes are sensitive to certain optical relations in their ...First, apes used cues of high similarity (mirror reflections) and modest similarity (shadows) with the food reward to localize ...
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Eye tracking uncovered great apes' ability to anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs
... infants, great apes have yet to pass false belief tests in which they must make active choices based on their false belief understanding, even though they were able to correctly predict the actions of a ...
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Cross species variation in gaze following and conspecific preference among great apes, human infants and adults
... Cross-species variation in gaze following and conspecific preference among great apes, human infants and adults Kano, F.. Date of deposit.[r] ...
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The role of past interactions in great apes’ communication about absent entities
... The Role of Past Interactions in Great Apes’ Communication About Absent Entities.. for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.[r] ...
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The animal origins of disgust : reports of basic disgust in nonhuman great apes
... nonhuman great apes, we surveyed great ape experts using an instrument comprising ratings and open-ended questions to investigate observations of distaste, aversions and contamination-type reactions ...
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African Great Apes Are Naturally Infected with Roseoloviruses Closely Related to Human Herpesvirus 7
... African great apes, has characterized a novel roseolovirus close to HHV7 in each African great ape species and subspecies ...African great apes, while expected, significantly expands ...
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Assessing Host-Virus Codivergence for Close Relatives of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Infecting African Great Apes
... The processes involved in viral evolution and the interaction of viruses with their hosts are of great scientific interest and public health relevance. It has long been thought that the genetic diversity of ...
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Primate social attention : species differences and effects of individual experience in humans, great apes, and macaques
... an opposite pattern. Given that, in a previous study, orangutans (the same participants as in this study) showed a similar viewing pattern for the face and eyes as gorillas [44], it is likely that bonobos are exceptional ...
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Wild African great apes as natural hosts of malaria parasites: current knowledge and research perspectives
... African great apes (AGAs) have been known to naturally host malaria parasites since the early 1920s, when researchers first described various Plasmodium species infecting chim- panzees (Pan troglodytes) and ...
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Trans-species polymorphism in humans and the great apes is generally maintained by balancing selection that modulates the host immune response
... the great apes was first documented about three decades ago when orthologous sequences from the highly polymorphic major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loci were compared between species [4, ...
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Estimating abundance of African great apes
... sensors in wildlife habitats (Griffiths and Van Schaik 1993). Camera traps (CTs) are particularly useful for sampling medium- to large-bodied, rare, cryptic, and elusive animals in habitats where dense vegetation, rugged ...
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Diversity of malaria parasites in great apes in Gabon
... In the last few years, several new Plasmodium species were discovered in African non-human primates, espe- cially great apes [2,3,6,10,26]. These discoveries were made possible by the development of a ...
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Age dependent cognitive inflexibility in great apes
... Keywords: aging, cognitive flexibility, great apes, perseverative responding, reversal task.... The ability to suppress and/or change behaviour on the basis of negative feedback is.[r] ...
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Long term memory of past events in great apes
... Great apes have remarkable ...been great interest in whether they (and other animals) also remember specific events from their ...about great apes’ memory for past events (for reviews ...
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Sound symbolic congruency detection in humans but not in great apes
... and great apes (n = ...not great apes, showed crossmodal sound symbolic congruency effects, whereby effects were more pronounced for shape selections following round-sounding primes than ...
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Great apes' risk taking strategies in a decision making task
... non-human great apes decide based on EV in risky situations, considering both, relative value and probability of success, they should chose the risky option more often in scenarios with higher EV than in ...
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