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A6 Friday, March 15, 2019 Bismarck TriBune 1 NATION OBITUARIES FUNERALS TODAY Patricia Vollan, 77, Bis- marck, 11 a.m., st. cath- olic church, Bismarck. (Parkway Funeral service, Bismarck) Carol Anderson, 73, Bis- marck, 2 p.m., Bismarck Funer- al Home. Celesta Ostby, 86, Garrison, 2 p.m., Trinity Lutheran church, Douglas. (Thompson Funeral Home, Garrison) David Schaff, 85, Belfield, 6 p.m., stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson.

Gary Weisenburger The funeral for Gary Lee Weisenburger, 74, underwood, has been postponed until 10:30 a.m. monday, march 18, at Tuttle unit- ed methodist church, 401 main street Tuttle. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Gary died march 6, 2019, at sanford Hospital, Bismarck. Funeral service, Bismarck) Glee Grau Glee i.

Grau, 86, formerly of Dickinson, died march 13, 2019, surrounded by her family at cHi st. alexius, Bismarck. funeral service will be at 2 p.m. cDT Friday, march 29, at Bethel Lutheran church, Bismarck, with the rev. Jonathan Wal- la officiating.

interment will take place at a later date at mckin- ney cemetery, Tolley. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church. arrangements are with Ladbury Funeral service, Dickinson, www.ladburyfuneralservice.com. Elizabeth Schaff elizabeth (Betty) J. schaff, 64, mandan, passed away march 12, 2019, at sanford Health, Bismarck.

services will be held at 10:30 a.m. saturday, march 16, at Weigel Funeral Home, mandan, with the rev. Pat eustis officiat- ing. Burial of the urn will be held at a later date. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.

Friday at Weigel Funer- al Home, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. elizabeth was born to Pius and shirley (Brown) Lipp on april 30, 1954, in rapid city, s.D. she was raised and educated in springfield and rapid city. On July 28, 1973, she married the love of her life, Joseph P. schaff in mandan.

always a strong-willed woman who afraid to give her opinion, she was also one of the most loving women ever meet, who had unconditional love for her fam- ily and friends. she was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone in need. she was a very good cook and loved baking with her grandchildren. she was always a social butterfly with a posi- tive attitude and a smile on her face. elizabeth will be lovingly remembered as a firm mother and a pushover grandmother who will be dearly missed by many.

she will be deeply missed by her husband, Joseph; her daugh- ter, Jennifer schaff keegan rodgers), carlsbad, n.m.; her sons, Joseph iii (Yasuyo), menifee, and John, mandan; grandchildren, Briana, alyssa, Joseph and Payton Jo; sisters, carol (ron) DeWall, Bismarck, rhonda (richard) Hatzenbuhler, rapid city, and Patty (randy) Graner, mandan; brother, Wayne (Jayne) Lipp, Billings, and numerous nieces and nephews. she is preceded in death by her parents, Pius and shirley (Brown) Lipp. in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to HiT, inc. at https://www.hitinc.org/donation or HiT, inc. 1007 18th st.

nW mandan, nD 58554. Go to www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the guest book and share memories with her family. STATE OBITUARIES BELFIELD clara Dowhani- uk, 85. COOPERSTOWN David ekern, 72. CUMMINGS Lloyd miller, 76.

DICKINSON melisa Olhe- iser, 43. JAMESTOWN marlys kal- mbach, 83. MINOT Lois matson, 83; Helen schon, 93. PETTIBONE randy Tripp, 62. POWERS LAKE iylee Douts, infant.

SHELDON Glen Bartholo- may, 65. WISHEK Luella meiding- er, 92. CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press WASHINGTON Some chimpanzee groups are stone-throwers. Some use rocks to crack open tree nuts to eat. Others use sticks to fish for algae.

As researchers learn more about Homo closest living genetic relatives, they are also discovering more about the diversity of be- haviors within chimpanzee groups activities learned, at least in part socially, and passed from generation to generation. These patterns are referred to as or even animal In a new study, scientists argue that this diversity of behaviors should be protected as species themselves are safeguarded, and that they are now under threat from human distur- bance. we mean by is something you learn so- cially from your group mem- bers that you may not learn if you were born into a different chimpanzee said Am- mie Kalan, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. chimpanzee popula- tions decline and their hab- itats become fragmented, we can see a stark decline in chimpanzee behavioral diver- said Kalan, co-author of the sweeping new study pub- lished last week in the journal Science. The 10-year study, led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Ger- man Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, exam- ines data on 144 chimpanzee communities in Africa and the occurrence of 31 specific behaviors, such as tool usage or rock throwing.

The regions with the least human impact showed the greatest variety in chimp be- haviors. But areas greatly al- tered by logging, road-build- ing, climate change and other human activities showed markedly less behavioral di- versity an 88 percent lower probability of exhibiting all behaviors. Multiple factors drive the loss, the authors say. the increase of hu- man disturbance, chimps may not be able to live in such large groups anymore and it has been shown that group size is connected with social said Hjalmar also a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute and a co-au- thor. For example, researchers studying chimpanzee groups in parts of West Africa en- countered mysterious piles of stones alongside battered tree trunks.

The rocks had been thrown against the trees by chimpan- zees for reasons still unclear to the scientists who first docu- mented the behavior in 2016. Perhaps the purpose was to mark territory, or proclaim dominance within a group, or start a game, or something else, the biologists surmised. But not all chimpanzees are stone-throwers. Some groups use stones to crack open tree nuts. Re- searchers recently discovered an archaeological site in West Africa that showed chimpan- zees had used stones there for nut-cracking for more than 4,000 years.

Elsewhere in West Africa, sticks were the tools of choice, with young chimps in Guinea learning from their elders to use them to in lakes for long strands of algae to eat. Or, in Nigeria, to poke termite mounds to gather the insects for food. Sixty years ago, scientists had limited knowledge of chimpanzees in the wild, un- til researcher Jane Goodall first recorded behaviors like tool usage, which previously were associated only with humans. In 1999, Goodall and other scientists popularized the phrase in an article in the journal Sci- ence. The use of the term has ignited debate ever since in- cluding resistance from some but also launched further research.

Most likely genetics and so- cially learned behavior inter- act to form animal in chimpanzees and other species, said Carl Safina, an ecologist and author of several books on animal behavior who was not involved in the study. This has implications for conservation. have come to under- stand that behavioral diversity matters for protecting spe- said Andrew Whiten, an evolutionary psychologist and zoologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, who was not involved in the study. greater the diversity of behavior, the more likely a species will be able to deal with future changes and challenges in their he said.

not good news when their options are Study: Chimps matters for conservation ASSOCIATED PRESS, PROVIDED in this undated photo provided by Liran Samuni, chimpanzees in the National Park in the ivory coast vocalize with another group nearby. a study released last week highlights the diversity of chimp behaviors within groups traditions that are at least in part learned socially and transmitted from generation to generation. have come to understand that behavioral diversity matters for protecting species. The greater the diversity of behavior, the more likely a species will be able to deal with future changes and challenges in their environment. not good news when their options are Andrew Whiten, evolutionary psychologist and zoologist, University of St.

andrews, Scotland TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, who championed the Title IX fed- eral law banning discrimina- tion against women in college admissions and sports, died at his home Thursday at age 91. Bayh was surrounded by family at his home in Easton, when he died shortly af- ter midnight from pneumo- nia, his family said in a state- ment. His son, Evan, followed him into politics and became governor and a sen- ator.

The liberal Democrat had a back-slapping, humor- ous campaigning style that helped him win three narrow elections to the Senate start- ing in 1962, at a time when Republicans won Indiana in four of the five presidential elections. hold on the seat ended with a loss to Dan Quayle during the 1980 Ron- ald Reagan-led Republican landslide. Bayh (pronounced sponsored a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 amid protests over the Vietnam War and another amendment allow- ing the replacement of vice presidents. But it was his work to pass the landmark Title IX law that solidified his legacy. He wrote and was the lead sponsor of the 1972 law, which prohibits gender discrimination in ed- ucation known as Title IX for its section in the Higher Education Act.

The passage came at a time when women earned fewer than 10 percent of all medical and law degrees, and fewer than 300,000 high school girls one in 27 played sports. Now, women make up more than half of those receiving and graduate degrees. Bayh said the law was aimed at giving women a better shot at higher-paying jobs, and he continued speak- ing in support of Title enforcement for years after leaving Congress. Bayh also used his position as head of the con- stitutional subcommittee to craft the 25th Amendment on presidential succession and the 26th Amendment setting the national voting age at 18. The amendment led to the presidency of Gerald Ford less than a decade later when Ford first succeeded Spiro Agnew as vice president and then took over the White House after President Richard Nix- resignation during the Watergate scandal.

push to lower the national voting age from 21 to 18 came amid protests over the Vietnam War and objec- tions that Americans dying on battlefields were unable to vote in all states. The amend- ment won ratification from the states in 1971. Bayh also was a leading sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have barred discrimination on the basis of gender. It passed Congress but failed to win approval from two- thirds of the states by its 1982 deadline. only person since the Founding Fathers to draft more than one amendment to the Constitution, Sena- tor Bayh devoted his life to championing the rights of all women, people of color, young people, and others whom history had too long pushed to the his family said in a statement.

Former Sen. Birch Bayh, champion of Title IX law, dies at 91 ASSOCIATED PRESS, 2012 FILE PHOTO Former Sen. Birch Bayh, the author of Title iX in congress, is applauded by Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president and chair of the council on Women, left, and tennis great Billie Jean King, center, during a forum in the South court auditorium at the White house in Washington in a gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title iX on June 20, 2012. 733 Memorial Highway Bismarck 701-223-1757 Hours: Mon. 9-5; Fri.

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