the way of the apes that he lives with. All the while‚ he is fully aware at all times how different he is from the animals he is in company with. This is due to the fact that he must overcome several challenges to deal with being so different from the animals around him. He must learn to walk‚ communicate‚ eat‚ hunt‚ and interact with the apes in a particular way. All these things are unnatural for regular humans. However‚ in order to survive‚ he adapts quickly and being like an ape is the only way
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Cornell Notes Topic: Sasquatch Page _1 & 2_ of _5_. | Lesson 21 Monster Research | Main Idea: Origins of the Sasquatch. Where they are. What they eat. Any predators? | * Notes: Sasquatch‚ also known as Bigfoot‚ is an ape-like creature said to live in the United States and Canada. Although sightings have been reported in numerous states‚ most reports come from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Numerous Bigfoot sightings have also been reported in British Columbia‚
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poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape species- the Eastern Gorilla‚ Western Gorilla‚ Bornean Orangutan‚ Sumatran Orangutan‚ Chimpanzee
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for the disagreement among scientists about whether apes can use language. Language consists of various aspects which people believe are more or less important‚ for example‚ grammar‚ symbol usage‚ the ability to represent real-world situations‚ and the ability to articulate something new (Wallman 1992: 6). Duane Rumbaugh describes language as "an infinitely open system of communication" (Rumbaugh 1977b: xx). Some people say that anything an ape can do is not language; of course‚ if these are the
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and diversified through time under the influence of natural selection.¨ (www.dictionary.com). This the scientific take on evolution and a lot of people in the public believe this version too. This is the belief where humans have evolved from apes. Apes kept reproducing over and over again‚ and with each time they got more advanced
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As we saw in “Ape Genius”‚ the apes could observe others and learn how to use tools‚ for example‚ as we saw them with sticks used to retrieve insects; but they couldn’t teach others this new skill they had acquired. The apes could merely learn from observation‚ this meant that there is no furthering of these ideas. The ideas could not evolve‚ and were stuck at the primitive level that they were originally learned at. In the documentary‚ we see scientists attempting to teach apes and in turn have
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to make assessments about how they lived. Ape or Man? Australopitheane: -on earth 10 million years ago =mostly ape like Human features: -walks upright –can hold stuff with hands Ape features: -brain size 450-500cc -a lot of body hair –brow ridge –large teeth –flat noise –jutting jaw Homo habilis: -on earth 2 million years ago =man/ape like Human Features: -walks upright -communication to pass knowledge -tool making -skull shape rounded Ape Features: -4ft tall –brow ridge -large teeth
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discovered a five year old skull and it was unlike that of an ape’s he had ever seen. According to!!!!!!!!!‚ Studying the skull‚ he made the following discoveries: -The skull had “ape-like” features -had a projecting face -small brain Dart discovered that the skull had human features too: -rounded jaw (unlike the pointed jaw of apes) -The specimen walked upright‚ judging by the ventral position of the foramen magnum (the hole at the base of the skull where the spinal cord appears) Professor Dart after
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ADAPTING TO THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: Bipedalism Bipedalism- the condition of being two-footed or of using two feet for standing and walking. The hominoid apes flourished at the very beginning of the Miocene epoch‚ when lush tropical rain forests were the predominant habitat. In the Opinion of many Anthropologists‚ bipedalism was adaptive for life amid the tall grasses of the savannas. Baboons and some other old World monkeys also live in savanna- type environments‚ yet although they can
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monkeys and apes on the islands they live in. Lemurs range in size from the smallest mouse lemur with 5 inches to the indri with 2 to 3 feet (Nowak‚ 1999). The size of the lemur in comparison to other primates is an adaptation to the limited space on the island where it evolved (Jennifer‚ 2011).
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