Mama’s Last Hug: What Animal Emotions Reveal About Humans
Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
Mama’s Last Hug: What Animal Emotions Reveal About Humans
Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
San Francisco Lecture Explores New Discoveries about Chimpanzees
From culture to warfare, from our diet to our politics, the study of wild chimpanzees continues to change the way we understand both human nature and the apes themselves.
Primate Tales: Edgar and the Appearance of Pyrrhic Victory in Biology
For more than four years, the alpha male in the Mitumba community of chimpanzees in Gombe National Park has been Edgar, a ruler with an iron fist if ever there was one.
What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees
In this talk, John Mitani will discuss how his 23-year study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at Ngogo in Kibale National Park, Uganda, challenges our notions of what makes us human. Studies of the Ngogo chimpanzees indicate that the gap between them and us may be smaller than previously thought.