Human brains 'get smaller with age'

Human brains 'get smaller with age' London: A new study has found that human brains get smaller with age - but, it's the price people pay for a longer life than their closest relative, the chimpanzee. Researchers at George Washington University found that only humans have brains which progressively shrink with increasing age, and it's uniquely human as the phenomenon don't occur in chimpanzees. Loss of neurons over time may be the result of an evolutionary...
06:49 PM, Jul 26, 2011

Chimps 'mourn their dead infants'

Chimps 'mourn their dead infants' London: Scientists claim to have for the first time revealed how primates react to death of close individuals, after they found that female chimpanzees mourn their dead infants. It is known that chimpanzee mothers establish close physical relationships with their young, carrying them for up to two years and nursing them until they are six. Now, an international team led by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Germany has filmed...
06:55 PM, Jan 31, 2011

Karnataka chimpanzees have tough time in Lucknow zoo

Karnataka chimpanzees have tough time in Lucknow zoo It takes Kannada to calm down the two chimpanzees. ...
09:50 AM, Aug 11, 2007
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