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Great Apes

Apes Have People-Like Personalities? What Scientists Now Say

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2013 | Science
Read More: Video, Humans, Primates, Behavior, Animal Behavior, Apes, Chimpanzees, Great Apes, Animals, Personalities, Personality Traits, Chimpanzee Behavior, Anthropomorphism, Science News

What makes you you? Psychologists say human personalities include what they call "the big five” traits: agreeableness, openness to experience, ext...

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Apes' Cozy Nests Yield Clues About Human Evolution

Posted 04.17.2012 | Science
Read More: Orangutans Indonesia, Video, Chimps, Animal Psychology, Sleep Behavior, Orangutans, Animal Behavior, Chimpanzees, Apes, Animals, Great Apes, Sleep, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/16/2012 03:04 PM EDT on LiveScience When they are ready to snuggle up at the tops of tr...

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The Case for Non-Human Personhood Rights

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.12.2012 | Science
Read More: 14th Amendment, Killer Whales, Dolphins, Animal Rights, Primates, Cetaceans, Personhood, Corporate Personhood, Chimpanzees, Whales, Great Apes, 1st Amendment, Science News
Eric Michael Johnson

This is not as radical an idea as it may sound. The law is fully capable of making and unmaking "persons" in the strictly legal sense. But that would be unlikely to happen with whales, dolphins, or even great apes.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Chimp Research: The Beginning Of The End?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.09.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Chimps, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Talk Nerdy to Me, Science, Carl Sagan, Institute of Medicine, Cara Santa Maria, Chimpanzees, Animal Research, Apes, Nih, Great Apes, Science News

2012-01-09-fjkdjfjdkfkdjfefd.jpgOther than the West African nation of Gabon, we are the only country in the entire world that still experiments on chimps.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Are We Not Apes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Video, Bonobo, Chimpanzee, Human Sexuality, Talk Nerdy to Me, Frans De Waal, Make Love Not War, Great Apes, Stephen Jay Gould, Animal Sexuality, Home News

Although chimpanzees and bonobos are practically equivalent to humans in terms of our shared DNA compliment, they are not the same species by any stretch.

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Ape Sh*t

Suz Redfearn | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Browse, Chimps, Poop, Sex, Gibbons, Gorillas, National Zoo, Crap, Orangutans, Sushi, Leaf-Eater Biscuits, Digestion, Great Apes, Sanitation, Coprophagia, Healthy Living News
Suz Redfearn

Pre-gorilla poo eating, I'd been able to protect my daughter from the dark and perplexing side of life. But post poo-eating, everything had changed.

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