When we group chimpanzees together with, say, snakes, as animals, we imply that the gap between us and chimpanzees is greater than the gap between chimpanzees and snakes.

Actually, that overwhelming similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA is a product of two cultural facts our familiarity with the chimpanzee s body, and our unfamiliarity with DNA.

There, the pampered chimpanzee who, when asked to sort photos of humans and apes, put his own photo among the humans was locked in a cage with other chimps.

The Dutch government subsequently banned biomedical research on chimpanzees.

And I was watching Jane Goodall yesterday, and I thought it was really great, and I was watching those incredible slides of the chimpanzees, and I thought, Wow. What if a chimpanzee could talk, you know? What would it say?

So it's pretty sad to find that chimpanzees, like so many other creatures around the world, are losing their habitats.

It went unnoticed, because there has been no European medical research on chimpanzees since 2003.

You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is Human vs. Chimps the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps.

Because the chimpanzee would score half right if I gave them two bananas with Sri Lanka and Turkey. They would be right half of the cases.

Another European directive came into effect on January 1, banning medical research on chimpanzees.

Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos.

Fauna living on the banks of the lake including chimpanzees, elephants, crocodiles, and lions are protected by the national parks.

Now it's a little bit of a surprise that to get an answer to that question, we have to go to tool use in the chimpanzees.

They do have a very rich repertoire of postures and gestures, many of which are similar, or even identical, to ours and formed in the same context. Greeting chimpanzees embracing.

Only when Rodman s superiors cancel his experiments and he takes home Caesar, an infant chimpanzee, does the scientist begin to care about others.

I did also an unethical study of the professors of the Karolinska Institute that hands out the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and they are on par with the chimpanzee there.

The report also recommends that most of the chimpanzees owned or supported by the NIH should be retired from research and moved to sanctuaries.

In the field of human origins, it is well known that a human DNA sequence is nearly 99 identical to the corresponding part of a chimpanzee s DNA.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest relatives, and we humans, not gorillas or orangutans, are their closest relatives.

In 2002, a review by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science found that the chimpanzee colony there was not serving any vital research purposes.

The chimp is going to see, watch carefully, they're going to see 200 milliseconds' exposure that's fast, that's eight movie frames of numbers one, two, three, four, five.

And so, I want to give you a greeting, as from a chimpanzee in the forests of Tanzania Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

But one late night, when I was compiling the report I really realized my discovery. I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Individual chimpanzees are much stronger than human beings, but as a species, we can, and do, hold them captive, and essentially helpless, in zoos and laboratories.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ.

Ham (July 1956 January 19, 1983), also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first Hominidae launched into space, on 31 January 1961, as part of America's space program.

The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side by side with threatened animals.

Especially when chimpanzees, and other animals with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non human animals.

In the United States, a bipartisan group of members of Congress is supporting legislation to end the use of chimpanzees in invasive research.

As I began traveling around Africa talking about the problems faced by chimpanzees and their vanishing forests, I realized more and more how so many of Africa's problems could be laid at the door of previous colonial exploitation.

You see, there's two forks in the road. We know that people live twice as long as chimpanzees almost, and nobody lives more than 120 years, for reasons that aren't very well understood.

Further work on the secondary structure of HAR1A has suggested that the human form adopts a different fold to that of other mammals exemplified by the chimpanzee sequence.

I think the chimpanzee in captivity who is the most skilled in intellectual performance is one called Ai in Japan her name means love and she has a wonderfully sensitive partner working with her.

The one thing we have, which makes us so different from chimpanzees or other living creatures, is this sophisticated spoken language a language with which we can tell children about things that aren't here.

And these chimpanzees, living their complex social lives in the wild, have helped more than anything else to make us realize we are part of, and not separated from, the amazing animals with whom we share the planet.

I think that we're pretty smart, as compared to chimpanzees, but we're not smart enough to deal with the colossal problems that we face, either in abstract mathematics or in figuring out economies, or balancing the world around.

During the past 20 years, other countries have also stopped using chimpanzees for medical research indeed, only the US and Gabon continue to do so, with the US by far the larger user.

While there are significant differences among the genomes of human individuals (on the order of 0.1 ), these are considerably smaller than the differences between humans and their closest living relatives, the chimpanzees (approximately 4 ) and bonobos.

As far as the treatment of apes is concerned, much of the film is firmly grounded in reality, as a viewing of Project Nim, a documentary based on Elizabeth Hess s book Nim Chimpsky The Chimp Who Would be Human, clearly demonstrates.

The report also recommends special requirements for keeping the remaining chimps housing in groups of at least seven, with a minimum of 1,000 square feet per chimp, room to climb, and opportunities to forage for food.

The chimps there's no time to discuss their fascinating lives but they have this long childhood, five years of suckling and sleeping with the mother, and then another three, four or five years of emotional dependence on her, even when the next child is born.

Prehistory Early humans Genetic measurements indicate that the ape lineage which would lead to Homo sapiens diverged from the lineage that would lead to chimpanzees (the closest living relative of modern humans) around five million years ago.

For example, for the first time, a few years ago, by simply collecting little fecal samples we were able to have them analyzed to have DNA profiling done so for the first time, we actually know which male chimps are the fathers of each individual infant.

Last month, the National Institutes of Health, the US government agency responsible for biomedical research, approved a report recommending the cancelation of the majority of NIH funded projects involving invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees.

After all, when the chimpanzee itself was new and interesting (in the 1700 s), contemporary scholars commonly judged it to be overwhelmingly similar to the human form so much so, that it was commonly classified as a variant of humans.