Before reading the articles written by Morell and Plotnik‚ I thought chimpanzees were the smartest animals. Although these authors have different purposes for writing‚ they both can help us understand how elephants truly behave. Morell taught her readers that elephants are smarter and more compassionate than they may seem. In the article Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk‚ Morell makes her ideas clear by saying the elephants tried to pull a rope alone and couldn’t get the treat until they worked
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Chimpanzees and human DNA is really similar. Chimpanzees only differ from us in about 2% of their genetic material. After discovering that chimpanzees are only different from us by around 2%‚ they were reclassified. Today‚ humans and chimps are both classified as hominids because we have a close evolutionary relationship and a lot of similarities. For example‚ the majority of our genetic codes are shared with chimps. Humans and our immediate extinct relatives are also classified as hominids (Lone
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Summary of the anatomical characteristics that reflect the human adaptation to bipedal locomotion Hominins are the only primates that are fully bipedal. As with other types of locomotion‚ bipedalism is reflected in numerous adaptations of skeletal structure‚ starting from the head and moving toward the toes. Two important adaptations are found in the cranium. The first is the position of the foramen magnum‚ the large hole at the base of the cranium that allows the brain to connect to the spinal
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Primates‚ like humans have hands‚ feet and a brain. There are certain characteristics that defines a primate. The first trait is color vision. Although humans are capable of distinguishing a spectrum of color‚ other primates fail to do so because they are colorblind. Specifically‚ they cannot see the color red. As time passed by‚ color vision has evolved for primates. Unlike before‚ they have the ability to pick out red and orange fruit to eat for themselves. Another trait is grasping hands. It helps
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Sierra Cannon March 2‚ 2014 Professor Rock Psychology 200 Psychological relationship between Humans and Animals Whether its social‚ business‚ or personal‚ animals play an extremely important role in the lives of humans. Humans have been using animals to survive since before 100 BC. Animals have been protectors‚ companions‚ benefactors‚ co-workers‚ and even best friends. Humans need animals in their lives to stay healthy mentally and even physically. Animals are used in everyday physical therapy
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Should Animals be Trained to Help Human Beings In ancient China‚ birds are trained to carry letters‚ and science then animals are trained to help human beings. Nowadays‚ trained animals are wide used in many areas such as searching for survivors after an earthquake‚ finding the hiding drugs and guide the blind. Some argue that man should not train animals and use them as a tool‚ it’s just too cruel to them‚ instead‚ man should take good care of them‚ feed them as well as protect them. That sounds
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People refusing to eat meat affirm a truth that many others find fanatical: that eating meat is wrong. And while this opinion may consign us to the status of overly emotional dilettantes‚ I have not come to my conclusion based on my emotions but rather the emotions and feelings of animals‚ otherwise known as sentience. Photo Courtesy Farm Sanctuary (www.farmsanctuary.org) All living‚ breathing beings are sentient. While the degree of intelligence varies by species‚ each is imbued with the ability
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Doing research on animals exist long time ago. There are records were found in Egypt‚ dated in the 3rd Century B.C‚ where a scientist philosopher used animals to study body function. Since then‚ the use of animals in research has broadly multiply. Millions of animals are studied in research laboratories each year in order to test any new findings for human disease. Researchers have carried out experiments on monkeys‚ dogs‚ cats‚ chimpanzees and others‚ because these animals can serve as useful models
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In Donna Haraway’s essay‚ “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science‚ Technology‚ and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” it is an effort to establish a political point of view on Feminism which an ironic political myth which is authentic to feminism‚ socialism‚ and materialism. Her motive is to build a structure that is faithful to feminism and socialism‚ “To build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism‚ socialism and materialism.”(p.149) Haraway develops her ironic myth by hypothesising
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Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference? The terms ‘hominid’ and ‘hominin’ are frequently used in human evolution. New definitions The most commonly used recent definitions are: Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is‚ modern humans‚ chimpanzees‚ gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors). Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans‚ extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo‚ Australopithecus
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