4 search results for “primates” in the Staff website
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food
How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karline Janmaat is studying how humans and other primates adapt to their environment in their search for food. She will give her inaugural lecture as Professor…
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Tonko ZijlstraSocial & Behavioural Sciences
t.w.zijlstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Marco MaioliniFaculty of Science
m.maiolini@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4910
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Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm)
How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? ‘The best students ever’ and behavioural biologist Michelle Spierings demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move rhythmically—each following their own unique beat.