This chimp, photographed in 2005, displays humanlike concentration as he snags a termite snack.
He has used archive footage, photographs and interviews with those who cared for Nim to create a tribute to the chimp and his turbulent life.
If a given set of sequences isn't doing anything important, which is usually the case, then the rat, mouse, human, and chimp versions are expected to be very different from one another.
Conklin couldn't confirm media reports that the chimp had Lyme disease, though he did say investigators were taking their time with the case to determine what may have provoked Travis to attack Nash.
Had a few, fateful mutations changed an innocuous chimp virus into a human killer?
The child or chimp acting as the potential partner in the experiment wasn't being tested; he or she had only the single end to pull.
The chimp had a sweet and tactile side but could also be violent, messy and vicious. But as Marsh points out, that's what chimpanzees are like, that's how they behave.
Worst of all is the implication that at some point there existed something halfway between a chimp and a human.
"If you take the promiscuity that is the main feature of chimp society, and replace it with pair bonding, you get many of the most important features of human society," he said.
If a chimp at the zoo flings feces at you, throw some right back.
Nash, 55, had just arrived at the home of her friend, Sandra Herold, 70, when the chimp, named Travis, jumped on her and began biting and mauling her, said Stamford Police Capt. Rich Conklin.
I had been privileged to know some amazing chimp characters over the years... Olly, Mike, Mr. McGregor, each with his or her unique personality.
Both sons and daughters could disperse from the home group, unlike chimp society, where only females can disperse.
Hunting, loss of habitat and disease are decreasing chimp Numbers and it's hard to figure out how much of a factor SIV is, he said.
After a chimp learns to solve a particular problem, the situation is changed so that the particular action the chimp is using won't work any more.
I have mixed feelings on chimp studies.
