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How orangutan engineers build safe and comfortable treetop beds

Discover Magazine - Mon 16 Apr 12

We normally think of nests as the creations of birds, but our ape cousins ...

How orangutan engineers build safe and comfortable treetop beds, Discover Magazine - Mon 16 Apr 12

Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees

Phys.org - Mon 16 Apr 12

The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. ...

Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees, e! Science News - Mon 16 Apr 12
Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees, Labspaces.net - Mon 16 Apr 12
Chimpanzee Ground Nests Offer New Insight Into Our Ancestors Descent From The Trees, RedOrbit - Mon 16 Apr 12
Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors' descent from the trees, ScienceDaily - Mon 16 Apr 12
Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees, Eurekalert - Mon 16 Apr 12

Chimp beds hint how early humans ditched tree-sleeping

Newscientist - Thu 12 Apr 12

Evidence that some chimps routinely eschew the safety of treetops to sleep on the ground raises the possibility that some early hominins did too

Apes' Simple Nests Are Feats of Engineering

Livescience - Mon 16 Apr 12

These nests are so complicated, it makes me want to take a nap

Earlier exit of early man from trees?

UPI - Thu 12 Apr 12

CAMBRIDGE, England, April 12 (UPI) -- Evidence that chimps often leave the safety of trees to sleep on the ground raises the possibility that some early hominins did too, British researchers ...