This is the way of things when you are a bonobo, like 29-years old Kanji, the close and more peaceful cousin of the chimpanzee.Kanji uses colored picture cards to talk. He not only uses existing cards to talk, but also makes new words mixing complex set of cards. For example, he mixes SLOW card and LETTUCE card to make a word for KALE. Kanji does this because it takes longer to chew kale than ...
s work with chimpanzees shows that individuals survive longer when they form close, long-term bonds with others. One chimpanzee mother lived into old age because her son cared for her. Unfortunately, when she died, he apparently died of grief. Close cousins to us, indeed.Human beings are social creatures par excellence. It's not possible to gaze out of a window onto the towers of Manhattan ...
Well, the total gene information in the human body is equal to a thousand volumes of a large encyclopedia. If the chimpanzee only differs by 1 percent, that means there are still 10 volumes of the encyclopedia that are different for them as compared with us. That is enough to make them a different species.(c)1991.Los Angeles Times Syndicate ...