Sentence examples for trained primates from inspiring English sources

He could express frustration, or apparent boredom, and his cognitive and language skills appeared to be about as competent as those in trained primates.

Universal Studios Florida, Orlando; (407) 363-8000, www.universalorlando.com Live performances by trained primates, ducks, snakes, dogs and cats -- including the Himalayan that portrayed Jinx, the cat in "Meet the Parents" -- are interspersed with video clips of shows from the Animal Planet cable network.

Our motivation for including attentional set-shifting in our study was driven more by curiosity than expectation, since it is difficult to train primates to perform this task, and it has been a particularly challenging to establish this test for use in rodents (for references and discussion, see below).

In the new study, the team trained the primates to dole out tokens that stood for bananas, with one token symbolizing an equal split, while the other was an unfair deal that benefitted the first chimp.

For example, scientists have obtained considerable success in training primates to cooperate during blood sample collection [26] or during various other handling or veterinary procedures [27] [29].

It's revealed to be a space-ship simulator, and Leo is training the primate, Pericles, for an exploratory flight.

To examine the generality of cholinergic involvement in visual memory in primates, we trained macaque monkeys either on an object-in-place scene learning task or in delayed nonmatching-to-sample (DNMS).

1. Some research suggests that apes and even non-primates can be trained to understand the functions of rejection, refusal, and even non-existence, corresponding to stages attested in children's acquisition of negation, but not those of denial or truth-conditional negation (Heine and Kuteva 2007 141 22007 141 2

Monkeys were trained to sit in a primate chair for the duration of the experiments with their heads restrained.

It appears to violate Department of Defense regulations prohibiting weapons training on primates and the use of animals when alternatives are available.

Following recovery from surgery, the monkeys were trained to sit head restrained in a primate chair.