Still, the appeal of the J is not lost on aficionados like Ronald de Waal.
Dr Pollick and Dr de Waal studied four groups of apes held in captivity.
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Alex de Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University.
Executive Wouter de Waal told CNN that it is "dead easy" to get weapons illegally.
Frans De Waal: " Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
But the new study, which compares chimpanzees to young children, makes de Waal rethink that view.
"If you cooperate, you have to watch what the other person is getting, " de Waal says.
Like children, the monkeys feel they "need to get the same thing as somebody else, " de Waal said.
"Velsheda is a beautiful boat, and on top of that it is a very fast boat, " says De Waal.
De Waal added a modern carbon-fiber rig, sumptuous varnished deckhouses and other features not found on the original Js.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Thomas de Waal.
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"You can do it 25 times in a row, and they are perfectly happy getting cucumber slices, " de Waal says.
Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.
De Waal isn't sure that his monkeys have what a philosopher would call a "concept of justice" in an intellectual sense.
Half of the gestures Dr Pollick and Dr de Waal regularly observed seemed to have completely different meanings in the two species.
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De Waal believed this model of fairness would apply to chimpanzees also.
On the whole, it appears that Mr de Waal appreciates this point.
Join us on in this hour for a talk with primatologists Frans de Waal and Robert Sapolsky about the nature of studying apes.
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De Waal faced a devilishly difficult kick in the corner, but held his nerve to score from 30 metres out on the touchline.
Dr Matthew Campbell and Dr Frans de Waal showed the footage to 23 adult chimpanzees, which had been raised in two separate groups.
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Other essays by de Waal and anthropologists Brian Hare and Jingzhi Tan show that our primate cousins share empathy and the inclination to cooperate.
In his 2005 book, Our Inner Ape, leading primatologist Frans de Waal makes it clear that there are plenty of peaceful and tolerant animals.
"She's the ultimate racing machine, " says de Waal of his meticulously restored yacht, which requires a crew of 20 just to handle the sails.
The Classic draws yachtsmen like Kozlowski and Ronald de Waal , the Dutch-born vice chairman of Saks who owns the equally heart-knocking J-boat Velsheda.
If De Waal wants to bring along more friends--or his 30-member racing crew--they have to sleep aboard his 130-foot motor yacht, the aptly named Bystander.
As de Waal makes clear, the enormous advantages of high status are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and the obsession with sex is similarly universal.
In a typical case of tail wagging dog, says Mr de Waal, Azerbaijan sabotaged moves to reopen the border between Turkey and Armenia in 2009.
The book, edited by primatologist Frans de Waal and ethologist Pier Francesco Ferrari, is a collection of papers presented at a conference they organized in 2009.
Artists Gillian Wearing and Edward De Waal received OBEs while novelist Kate Atkinson, whose book Case Histories has been adapted for BBC One, was made an MBE.
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