Club P.A.N.

In October 2007, a Workshop was hosted by Cristina Gomes, Chloe Cipoletta, Dr. Herbinger, Mr. Guilahoux and Mr. Ouattara in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where the teachers from the Club P.A.N. schools were introduced to the project. To see a small video please visit the 2007 workshop section.

Cristina Gomes: Chimps compile Nixon-style 'enemies list'

Chimpanzees have at least one thing in common with the late US president Richard Nixon: tracking those who do them favours and putting those who don't come up to scratch on an "enemies list". Nearly 3000 hours of observations of wild chimpanzees show that they keep tabs on which of the troop has groomed them the most - returning the favour to frequent groomers, while freezing out the selfish ones. In a way, grooming works like currency in chimpanzees, says Cristina Gomes, a behavioural ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "If you don't have a set price, then you're susceptible to being cheated and cooperation would probably break down."

Cristina Gomes: Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex

Dra. Cristina Gomes

Chimpanzees enter into "deals" whereby they exchange meat for sex, according to researchers. Male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts. This is a long-term exchange, so males continue to share their catch with females when they are not fertile, copulating with them when they are. The team describe their findings in the journal PLoS One. Cristina Gomes and her colleagues, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied chimps in the Tai Forest reserve in Ivory Coast.

"The males still share with them - they might share meat with a female one day, and only copulate with her a day or two later." Dr. Gomes thinks that her findings could even provide clues about human evolution.

Himno Universitario UCV

Fue fundado en 1.943 por Antonio Estévez, y declarado "Patrimonio Artístico de la Nación" en 1983. Es pionero de las agrupaciones corales universitarias venezolanas. Es el coro activo mas antiguo del país y desde su creación ha desarrollado una intensa actividad que lo ha llevado a los más apartados rincones de Venezuela y del mundo. Por otra parte cultiva todo género musical: universal, latinoamericano y venezolano. Ha grabado 10 ediciones discográficas y además ha participado en producciones de artistas nacionales, entre los que cuentan Ilan Chester, Serenata Guayanesa y las Voces Risueñas de Carayaca. Sus integrante son estudiantes, y estudiantes de la UCV.

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New Catfish Species Climbs Rocks

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El Bagre

A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish. The newfound catfish, Lithogenes wahari, shares traits with two different families of fish — Loricariidae (armored catfishes) and Astroblepidae (climbing catfishes). It has bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that helps it to climb vertical surfaces such as rocks. These characteristics in L. wahari suggest to ichthyologists Scott Schaefer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Francisco Provenzano of the Universidad Central de Venezuela ...

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