Health and Environmental Concerns as Ugandans Start to Eat Primates From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. The flow of Congolese refugees into western Uganda is raising concerns not only about food security, but also

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Central Africa Region Named World Heritage Site A region in Central Africa with some of the last great populations of forest elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees has been declared a U.N. World Heritage Site. It consists of about 25 thousand square kil

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Chimps show other chimps how to use tools. My roommate showed me some tricks to make better scrambled eggs. Group members teaching each other is called cultural transmission. And a study finds that a cultural transmission is behind the spread of hunt

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, Got a minute? Sharing is one of the hallmarks of human behavior: give me a cookie and Im more likely to give you one later. But our bonobo cousins have an odd variation on the pract

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Chimpanzees, they are much like us, genetically and atomically, and as it turns out, cocktail logically. Because we finally have solid evidence that chimps drink alcohol.Social researcher who observed while chimpanzees throw back fermented tree tap

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Teeth Hint at a Friendlier Neandertal牙齿的秘密 The paleo dietit's pretty trendy. Eat like a caveman, no dairy, grains, sugar and so on. But what you probably won't find on many paleo plates today? 旧石器时代的饮食非常的时髦。吃的就

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What Animals Are Most Like People 什么动物和人类最像 Once again we go to the mailbag. A listener writes: 我们又一次打开邮箱。一位听众写到 Dear A Moment of Science, Besides chimps, which animals do you think are the most like

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Todays program is about an effect that not only have we all witnessed, but have participated in. Havent we all been on an elevator and noticed that just about everyone stops talking when they get on? Why do we do that? You can be having a perfectly p

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By Kari Barber Mt. Nimba, Guinea 29 February 2008 Where the West African nation of Guinea meets Liberia and Ivory Coast stands Mt. Nimba, the highest point in the region. The mountain range is home to rare plant and animal species. Because it is on t

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Feeling listless? Unfulfilled? Looks like life have all over, what could have to show for it? You are not alone. In fact, you might not even be human. Because a new study shows that even apes can experience a mid-life crisis. The work appears in the

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about deaths around the world linked to drinking alcohol. We tell about a new discovery that chimps get the disease

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VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Jane Goodall is one of the most well known scientists in the world. She has spent most of her career studying wild chimpanzees in a protected are

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New Book Blames Colonization for Spread of AIDS in Africa For European colonizers, Africas forests held the promise of untold riches ivory, rubber and minerals. But unknown to the fortune seekers, those forests also held a virus that would claim over

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Genome Shows Humans More Gorilla-like than Thought Sixty scientists worked over five years to sequence the genome of a single female lowland gorilla, the last of the great apes to have its DNA mapped. According to lead author Aylwyn Scally, of the Tr

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African Sanctuaries Rescue Endangered Chimpanzees It's a typical day at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenyas Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Two of its 41 residents are scrapping over food, while a third looks on and yelps in protest. Kenya is their ado

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It will be a great tragedy for humanity if research with chimpanzees were stopped. Chimpanzees are our closest animal relative. So close, in fact, that 98 percent of a chimpanzee's DNA is identical to that of humans. The highly intelligent primates s

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Chimpanzees.They are much like us, genetically and atomically, and as it turns out, cocktail logically. Because we finally have solid evidence that chims drink alcohol. So say researchers who observed wild chimpanzees throw back fermented tree sap. T

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Monkey Mother Love Picture a mother cradling her newborn infant. She looks intently into the babys eyes, making kissing noises. Its a typical scene, right? Except that the mother and baby arent human. Theyre rhesus macaque monkeys. Until recently, sc

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By Jessica Berman Washington 02 October 2009 Anthropologists from around the world have added another million or so years to the history of human evolution. Scientists say the latest fossil find - while not a direct ancestor of modern humans, may of

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Jane Goodall

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