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Evidence: Chimpanzees: Nut Cracking (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:40

Primatologist Christophe Boesch demonstrates and discusses nut cracking, an aspect of chimpanzee behavior.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Chimpanzees: Culture Loss (clip)

Running Time:
00:00:47

Primatologist Christophe Boesch explains that declining chimpanzee populations threatens the study of chimpanzee culture.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Altruism in Chimps and Humans (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:20

Who is more likely to help out, a child or a chimp? Psychologist Felix Warneken explains how his researched found answers to this question.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Chimpanzee Cooperation (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:02

Do chimps cooperate even when they’re not related? The traditional answer is no, but primatologist Linda Vigilant explains how genetics is revising this belief.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Do Primates Plan? (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:00

Primatologist Josep Call discusses research designed to test primates’ ability to plan for the future.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Primate Problem-Solving (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:30

Primatologist Josep Call discusses research designed to test primates’ ability to solve problems.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Primates and Payback (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:00

Primatologist Josep Call explains why it would be interesting to know whether primates can remember and repay favors.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Chimp Behavior in Lab and Field (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:36

Psychologist Felix Warneken explains the importance of observing chimp behavior both in the wild and in controlled experimental environments.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Evidence: Chimpanzees: Hive Raiding (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:30

Primatologist Christophe Boesch demonstrates and discusses a hive raiding, an aspect of chimpanzee behavior.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Ice Stories: Interview with Glaciologist Mark Fahnestock, Part 2 (clip)

Running Time:
00:02:02

In this interview from Greenland, glaciologist Mark Fahnestock describes the roar of a 1000-foot iceberg dropping off the Jakobshavn Isbræ into the Ilulissat Icefjord. Includes time-lapse photography of this massive calving event.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science