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Bonobo ( 'Pygmy Chimpanzee' ) sex and society - Primates.com  Despite the frequency of sex, the bonobo's rate of reproduction in the wild is about the same ... Despite their common name--the pygmy chimpanzee--bonobos cannot be .... Another similarity with humans is increased female sexual receptivity.
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Pygmy chimpanzee - definition of pygmy chimpanzee by The Free ...  See bonobo. n another name for bonobo n. bonobo. Noun 1. pygmy chimpanzee - small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species bonobo,...
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Pygmy chimpanzee | Define Pygmy chimpanzee at Dictionary.com  Pygmy chimpanzee definition, a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in ... British Dictionary definitions for pygmy chimpanzee ... another name for bonobo ... What mistaken pronunciation gave this character its name?
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Chimpanzee - Wikipedia  The spelling chimpanzee is found in a 1758 supplement to Chamber's Cyclopdia. ... An alternative Theranthropus was suggested by Brookes 1828 and ... to as the "pygmy chimpanzee", was given the species name of...
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Bonobo - Wikipedia  The bonobo formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species ... Despite the alternative common name "pygmy chimpanzee", the bonobo is...
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primate | mammal | Britannica.com  The order Primates, with its 300 or more species, is the third most. ... Primate, in zoology, any mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, ... capable of constructing the Encyclopdia Britannica, belongs to this order. ... The former gait is characteristic of the African apes (chimpanzee and gorilla),...
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Gorillas: Scientific Classification - Sea World  The scientific order Primates encompasses about 233 living species classified in 13 ... member is the pygmy mouse lemur weighing around 31 g (1.1 oz) and the gorilla is the ... are found in other mammals but are generally not shared in other primates. ... They have also been referred to as anthropoid or "man-like" apes.
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Proboscis Monkey - Male, Monkeys, Species, and Adult - JRank ...  The feature that gives this odd-looking monkey its common name is the large, ... In the female, the nose is slightly enlarged but not as pendulous as in the male;...
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Bonobos | BCBI - Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative  The bonobo was originally called the "pygmy chimpanzee," but the term bonobo is used more widely today. Bonobos live primarily in the rain forests of central DRC. ... The chimpanzee is found north of the Congo River system. ... They appear to be more arboreal  adapted for living in trees - than other African great apes.
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Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual ...  Organisms are named by a two-word system, the genus followed by ...... by the powerful venom, is transferred to the polyp's equivalent of a mouth. ...... Giant AnteaterA giant anteater has broken into an ant's nest and is using its .... The name harpy comes from the creatures of Greek mythology, which had ...... Echidna, 164.
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The Primates: Overview - Palomar College  Today, non-human primates are limited in their natural habitats primarily to the ... They range all the way from the pygmy mouse lemur that weighs less than 2...
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Chimpanzee - Expand Your Mind - Topics - Revolvy  Chimpanzees (sometimes called chimps ) are one of the two species of the ... Washoe was the first non-human primate to learn some rudimentary forms of ASL, ... that examined whether he would learn sign language from other chimpanzees. .... was named after her with the acronym LANA because the project team felt that...
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Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape - The New York Times  Whereas selection of the chimpanzee as the touchstone of human evolution .... Oddly enough, the bonobo's genus name, Pan, derives from the Greek god of...
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Full text of "Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot ...  1 1 Speech in Non-Primates 15 Bypassing the Vocal Channel 16 What is .... not named by Furness, born; the first orangutan known to utter a word of human language. .... Bonobo Kanzi born on October 28 at Yerkes Research Center in Georgia; ...... Lana did learn to name, rather than request, objects denoted by the keys,...
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J! Archive - Show #6071, aired 2011-01-24  This monkey from Borneo is named for its nose, which can be 1/4 its body ... The French call these office supplies trombones, because of their...
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Pygmy peoples - Wikipedia  A pygmy is a member of an ethnic group whose average height is unusually short; ... However, although Pygmies are thought of as forest people, the groups called ... The best known are the Mbenga (Aka and Baka) of the western Congo basin,...
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Dastardly thief of sandwiches : AnimalsBeingJerks - Reddit  Jan 9, 2016 ... Please only post animals being jerks, not humans being jerks. .... []DostThowEvenLift2 32 points33 points34 points 9 months ago (1 child). /r/likeus ... This is the ape that really helped Galen, a doctor during the Roman Empire, create his books on human anatomy as it was taboo to dissect human corpses.
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Pygmy peoples - Wikipedia  A pygmy is a member of an ethnic group whose average height is unusually short; ... The term is most associated with peoples of Central Africa, such as the Aka, Ef and Mbuti. If the term pygmy is defined as a group's men having an average...
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Simian - Wikipedia  The simians (infraorder Simiiformes, Anthropoidea) are the monkeys, cladistically including the ... anthropos, human, also called anthropoid apes), while the strepsirrhines and tarsiers ... Primatology, paleoanthropology, and other related fields are split on their usage of the ... Wikispecies has information related to: Simian...
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Ape - Wikipedia  Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid primates native to Africa and ... "Ape" has been used as a synonym for "monkey" or for naming any primate with a ... The chief threat to most of the endangered species is loss of tropical .... As zoological knowledge developed, it became clear that taillessness...
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20 pygmy animal species from around the world | MNN - Mother ...  Apr 7, 2014 ... These cool pygmy animal species show you don't have to be big to be great. ... pygmy species. Though small in size, these animals are not small on personality nor good looks! .... These tiny versions of their much larger and more populous cousins are on the verge of extinction, with only around 500 left.