Chimps also use laughter as a social lubricant, according to a study in press in Emotion. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth in England spent months videotaping four captive chimpanzee colonies with nine to 35 apes in each group and…
Henline enlisted in the United States Army in 1989 at 17 years of age. … The four other soldiers he was riding with were all killed and Henline was set ablaze in the explosion. He suffered severe burns over 40…
Azalea (known in Korean as Dallae) is a chimpanzee housed at the Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. She is best known for her ability to smoke cigarettes, a behavior that has garnered criticism from multiple animal rights organizations.…
What does it mean when chimps scream? Pant-hoot chorusing in chimpanzees is a facilitative method of social bonding between males in a population and can be indicative of the level of affiliation between members in a party. … The formation…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has decided that about 23 square meters (250 square feet) per individual is adequate. That is just one-fourth the area that an advisory committee had recommended. The space plan affects a dwindling number of…
There is some evidence that chimps might have some understanding of death, and may even care for the bodies of deceased relatives. Researchers at the University of St. Andrews, in the UK, observed a group of chimps in Zambia huddled…
Bobby Flay has only been awarded one Michelin star In 2008, Flay received a Michelin star for his second Mesa Grill location in Las Vegas at the Caesars Palace hotel (the first had been in New York City). Unfortunately for…
For chimpanzees, kissing is a form of reconciliation. It is more common among males than females. In other words, it is not a romantic behaviour. Their cousins the bonobos kiss more often, and they often use tongues while doing so.…
iKON’s Bobby and his fiance welcomed their first child to the world! A source from YG Entertainment revealed on September 27, Bobby informed us that he recently welcomed a baby boy. Last month, Bobby personally announced through a handwritten letter…
The octopus has a nervous system which is much more distributed than ours. If you look at us, most of our neurons are in our brain, and for the octopus, three-fifths of its neurons are in its arms. Furthermore, not…