Knuckle-walking and behavioural flexibility in great apes by Emily LR Tarrega-Saunders, Charlotte King, Alice M Roberts, Susannah KS Thorpe

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Great ape infants’ face touching and its role in social engagement by Beatriz Felicio, Kim A. Bard

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Deux programmes d’éducation environnementale pour la conservation des grands singes africains: Club Ebobo et Club P.A.N. by Claudia Borchers, Julia Riedel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas Breuer

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Malles pédagogiques itinérantes « les grands singes et leur habitat »: parcours et premières évaluations de l’impact du projet en Ouganda et au Gabon by Sabrina Krief, Helena Nambogwe, Samy Mankoto, Jean-Michel Krief

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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

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Les pongos et les jockos sont-ils des animaux ou des hommes ? L’épreuve de l’incertitude, de Rousseau aux singes parlants by Chris Herzfeld

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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

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Le régime alimentaire des Gorilles de plaine de l’Est, Gorilla beringei graueri et la pharmacopée humaine : Alimentation ou automédication ? by Dalley-Divin Kambale Saa-Sita, Shelly Masi, Aimée Lorela Katungu Sawa-Sawa, Jean-Claude Kyungu Kasolene, Jean Malekani Mukulire

“…Humans share with great apes many diseases but also, locally, the use of food or medicinal plants. …”
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1987-2017 : Regard sur l’évolution de l’histoire des origines by Brigitte Senut

“…Fossil hominids were generally compared only to African great apes and modern humans; the apes generally being regarded as primitive. …”
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Habitual locomotor types and the shape of lower leg bones in primates, especially in hominoids by Tasuku Kimura

“…Humans also showed relatively large diameters in many measuring points after those of great apes, but had differently shaped distal ends. …”
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Les primates non humains ont-ils une théorie de l’esprit ? by Camille Guillier

“…In fact, we now know that great apes behave according to others’ goals, intentions, visual perspective, and knowledge, and, to a lesser extent it seems, to others’ auditory perspective. …”
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Etude préliminaire de l'influence des disponibilités alimentaires et des activités humaines sur l’utilisation spatiale de l’habitat par les chimpanzés et les bonobos by Victor Narat, Marie Cibot, Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo, Richard Dumez, Sabrina Krief

“…Great apes are endangered due to poaching, deforestation, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation. …”
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Flexibilité et intentionnalité dans la communication gestuelle chez les grands singes by Catherine Hobaiter, Richard W. Byrne

“…The gestural communication of great apes is a rich and complex system. It is used in a flexible manner with the intention to communicate specific goals to specific individuals - as such, it shares many of the basic attributes of human language, supporting the idea that the two systems share a common evolutionary root. …”
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Playing hide and seek with primates: A comparative study of Theory of Mind by Aurore San‑Galli, Marie Devaine, Cinzia Trapanese, Shelly Masi, Sébastien Bouret, Jean Daunizeau

“…Surprisingly, comparing the performances between the non-human primates' species did not reveal any significant inter-species difference. Therefore, great apes did not perform better than monkeys in our task. …”
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Anxiety from a Phylogenetic Perspective: Is there a Qualitative Difference between Human and Animal Anxiety? by Catherine Belzung, Pierre Philippot

“…Finally, autonoetic consciousness, a feature essential for human anxiety, appears only in great apes. This evolutive feature parallels the progress in the complexity of the logistic systems supporting it (e.g., the vegetative and central nervous systems). …”
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Bone mineral density in human femurs of documented age-at-death in a comparative context by Emmanuel Gilissen, Sarah Tayach, Rosine Orban

“…These results illustrate certain aspects of bone mineral density variability among different populations and within human populations over time, as well as the gracility of the human skeleton as compared to that of great apes.…”
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Evidence for the communicative function of human-directed gazing in 6- to 7-week-old dog puppies by Stefanie Riemer, Alina Bonorand, Lisa Stolzlechner

“…Similar to humans, and unlike great apes or wolves, domestic dogs show gaze alternations from an early age if they are well-socialised. …”
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Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…In this regard, relative to other great apes, gorillas are interesting because, like humans, they possess an elongated thumb that enables precision grips and finer manipulative actions, particularly important for bimanual coordination. …”
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Les bonobos se rappellent-ils la voix de leurs anciens partenaires ? by Florence Levréro, Sumir Keenan, Nicolas Mathevon, Jeroen MG Stevens, Jean Pascal Guéry, Klaus Zuberbühler

“…Vocal recognition after years of separation has never been reported in any great ape species, despite their complex societies and advanced social intelligence. …”
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Mutual coordination of behaviors in human–chimpanzee interactions: A case study in a laboratory setting by Akira Takada

“…We conducted an interaction analysis of two short video clips that recorded a physical measurement event at the Great Ape Research Institute (GARI), Tamano, Japan. …”
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