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Comparative curiosity: How do great apes and children deal with uncertainty? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Humans are perhaps the most curious animals on earth, but to what extent our innate motivations for discovering new information are shared with our closest relatives remain poorly understood.
Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro +1 more
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Sequential tool use in great apes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Sequential tool use is defined as using a tool to obtain another non-food object which subsequently itself will serve as a tool to act upon a further (sub)goal. Previous studies have shown that birds and great apes succeed in such tasks.
Gema Martin-Ordas +2 more
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Dynamic inconsistency in great apes [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhen presented with the option of either an immediate benefit or a larger, later reward, we may behave impatiently by choosing instant gratification. Nonetheless, when we can make the same decision ahead of time and plan for the future, we tend to make ...
Laura Salas-Morellón +2 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance in African Great Apes [PDF]
AntibioticsBackground/Objectives: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a significant global public health threat that demands serious attention. The proliferation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is primarily attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in humans ...
Coch Tanguy Floyde Tanga +7 more
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Learning from communication versus observation in great apes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 When human infants are intentionally addressed by others, they tend to interpret the information communicated as being relevant to them and worth acquiring.
Hanna Marno +4 more
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Evidence of joint commitment in great apes' natural joint actions
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Human joint action seems special, as it is grounded in joint commitment—a sense of mutual obligation participants feel towards each other. Comparative research with humans and non-human great apes has typically investigated joint commitment by ...
Raphaela Heesen +7 more
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Neurobiology and Anatomy of Facial Expressions in Great Apes: Application of the AnimalFACS and Its Possible Association with the Animal’s Affective State [PDF]
AnimalsThe Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is an anatomically based system to study facial expression in humans. Currently, it is recognized that nonhuman animals, particularly nonhuman primates, have an extensive facial ethogram that changes according to ...
Adriana Domínguez-Oliva +5 more
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The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Michael Tomasello
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Dyads of GGC and GCC form hotspot colonies that coincide with the evolution of human and other great apes [PDF]
BMC Genomic DataBackground GGC and GCC short tandem repeats (STRs) are of various evolutionary, biological, and pathological implications. However, the fundamental two-repeats (dyads) of these STRs are widely unexplored.
M. Arabfard +8 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 Non-human great apes – chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans – are threatened by agricultural expansion, particularly from rice, cacao, cassava, maize, and oil palm cultivation.
Erik Meijaard +17 more
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