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    One of the first people Alan goes to see is a person who believes chimps have more similarities than dissimilarities with humans. To explains one of their similarities as a type of politics. He believes that like humans chimps also develop a type of politics. He shows this by giving the chimps to watermelons and observing what the group of chimpanzees does with them. The two watermelons are taken by the two biggest males in the group while the females are left with nothing. The females begin to pester

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    Project Nim Reflection

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    After watching the documentary film‚ Project Nim‚ I was not surprised at all to hear that many of the scientists involved in the experiment were not convinced that chimps had the ability to ever learn how to properly sign. Several years ago‚ I had watched a YouTube video that touched on experiments like this one where it was stated that chimps‚ much like young human children‚ do not have the ability to understand that there are multiple points of view for the things that go on around them - otherwise

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    Early Hominids and Tools Jacky Thompson ANT 101 March 20‚ 2013 Even though humans seem to be the most advanced creatures walking this earth‚ we certainly had ancestors before us. We share similar genetic information of other animals. They are what we consider early hominids. Early hominids date as far back as 6 to 8 million years ago. Just like humans‚ they had to have some type of culture in order to survive and make a living. Culture is defined as a dynamic adaptive process of learned

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    the laboratories are very small‚ lined‚ and stacked one above the other. Furthermore‚ the chimps in these cages are not able to turn around. According to Goodall (1987.part2)‚ chimps has to be in cages individually other than when breeding program. Moreover‚ cages are uncomfortable to sleep and chimps are easily get sick. Therefore‚ chimpanzees should not be kept in scientific laboratories.

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    ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

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    ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE MUHAMMAD DZUL HUSSAINI BIN HANAFI KB1309FD4722 CHIMPANZEE INTRO Chimpanzees‚ sometimes colloquially Chimps‚ are two extant hominid species of apes in the genus Pan. The Congo River divides the native habitats of the two species. Chimpanzees are members of the family Hominidae‚ along with gorillas‚ humans‚ and orangutans. Chimpanzees split from the human branch of the family about four to six million years ago. Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives to humans‚ being members

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    Gregarious Chimps Harbor Richer Gut Microbiomes Article Review Every animal on earth produces bacteria that helps fight off germs and diseases from the body. In the article “Gregarious chimps harbor richer gut microbiomes”‚ the researches at Duke University performed a study on the gut microbes and the behavior of Chimpanzees. They studied the DNA droppings from forty Chimpanzees between 2000 and 2008. The article stated that in both humans and chimpanzees‚ the intestines hold lots of bacteria

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    shares a relationship with Kentaro. Goodall and Turner believe that people and animals have similar daily habits‚ exhibit the same emotions‚ and both are loyal and patient. In “My Life With A Chimpanzee”‚ Goodall watches the chimps’ daily habits. She discovered that chimps do a lot of the things humans do.

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    In The Shadow Of Man

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    between Jane and the chimpanzees was too far for her to make any detailed observations‚ she still was not able to get any closer than 500 yards before the chimps fled during her first few months at the Gombe Stream Reserve. She still got up before dawn every morning to make way to the peak‚ where she sat for most of the day waiting for a group of chimps to pass for her to watch with her binoculars. This depressed Jane‚ how could they receive more funding if she could not even make accurate observations

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    chimpanzee’s geographic distribution can be found across equatorial Africa‚ from Senegal in the west to Tanzania in the east. They can be found in moist and dry forests and savannas. There are four subspecies: the eastern chimpanzee‚ the central African chimp‚ the western chimpanzee‚ and the Nigeria-Cameroon subspecies. Chimpanzees live in communities of about 20 to 120 individuals. Males are somewhat larger and heavier than females. A Male chimpanzee may weigh up to 150 pounds and is up to 5.5 feet high

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    "Yerkish" gives the chimps the ability to talk to the computer using the keyboard. The computer thus responds appropriately to the typed message. While the chimp typed‚ it monitored its own sentences on a computer display and erased the sentences with grammar errors. At one point while the chimp typed a detailed sentence‚ its trainer purposefully and repeatedly interfered with her typing from a separate console in the room. The chimp then become annoyed by this and typed‚ "Please

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