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    Harlow Attachment Theory

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    Harlow’s experiments was to provide infant monkeys reared in isolation from their biological mothers with a surrogate wire “mother” that provided food and a cloth “mother” that did not. When surprised‚ frightened‚ or needing comfort‚ the infant monkeys tended to go the cloth version‚ despite the fact that the cloth monkey provided no food (Schultheis). Harlow’s groundbreaking experiments with wire- and cloth-based surrogate mothers showed that monkey infants that had never known their biological

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    Ebola Research Paper

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    only bodily fluids‚ the virus was believed to originate in monkeys. For monkeys have been the culprits in the two outbreaks that have occurred in the United States. An associated press writer stated "the first outbreaks of ebola began when some local natives found a monkey in the forest‚ and began eating the raw flesh from it"(Johnson‚ 1). The monkeys‚ who seemed to have contained the virus‚ then passed it on to the humans‚ through the monkey ’s blood. The only strain of ebola that can be spread otherwise

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    For many people‚ the zoo is a source of fond memories and funny childhood story’s like the swinging monkey‚ growling tigers and the others animals. Sometimes when we watch the animals in a captivity jumping through a flaming hoop or stand on its hind legs‚ it becomes easy to forget about all the abuse that the animals have been through. The animals may not like to do these things that we human feel amused about. They may prefer their own habitat if they had choices. Some people and I see zoos as

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    suits and multiple airlocks‚ ultra violet light rooms and workers must be intensely trained. 9. The virus got to the U.S. by the monkey that Jimbo traveled with from the forest. 11. The electron microscope shows about the Motaba virus in Kidney cells‚ and it showed it was invaded‚ multiplied and killed the cells. 12. Jimbo is the owner of the infected monkey‚ and the monkey with the virus kills many people. 13. Rudy is the store owner of the animal store‚ and she is around these animals all the time

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    Wish and Paw

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    The point-by-point method: Aunty Misery and the monkey´s paw. In the Aunty misery we can see‚ the death climbed the tree like the other children did‚ and he got stocked like them..And we can look in the monkey´s paw all of them asked wishes in the same way. Aunty misery has a setting where live an old woman with a beautiful tree of delicious pears‚ where death got socked and they are kids in the neighborhoods. The setting of the monkey´s paw is really mysterious and suspenseful… it takes

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    Harry Harlow conducted the concept for the adaption theory by using evidence of how infant monkeys reacting to two mothers. The infant monkeys were to experience the science of love‚ where there were two types of “surrogate” mothers created by Harlow. He first separated the baby monkeys from their mothers in the first couple months of birth and designed two new mothers for the monkeys. One other was made from bare wire but it was equipped with dispense milk and the other mother was covered in soft

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    La Zoo Observation

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    Zoo is laid out by continental area‚ so the primate exhibits are scattered throughout the zoo. I began with the New World monkey located in the South American section of the zoo. In exhibit area 75‚ I saw three species of New World monkeys. All of these species have prehensile tails. These species are the black-handed spider monkey‚ black howler monkey‚ and crested capuchin monkey.

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    The Bonobo

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    first understand what it is. Also by evaluating the causes of endangerment and the factors that correspond with it we can better understand how it should be handled. There are many endangered species on the planet‚ but I will be focusing on the Bonobo Monkey and how the destruction of their habit‚ poaching and other issues are affecting their existence. Found mainly near the Congo River in the Dominican Republic their biggest threats are humans. I will examine why these primates are being targeted and

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    Mirror Neurons

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    that fire both when the monkey executes a motor act and when it observes another individual (a human being or another monkey) performing the same or a similar motor act. They were discovered by a group of scientist at the University of Parma‚ Italy‚ when working on monkeys. The researchers‚ led by Giacomo Rizzolatti‚ had observed strange phenomenon with peanuts. They discovered that same group of neurons was responding when the monkey would pick up food and when the monkey saw someone performing the

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    Harlow

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    social isolation of rhesus monkeys. His work emphasized the importance of care-giving and companionship as a vital component to normal social and cognitive development. In his surrogate mother experiment‚ Harlow demonstrated the importance of contact comfort. Baby rhesus monkeys were separated from their mothers and given two surrogate mothers. One made out of wire‚ and another made of terry cloth. He found that even when food was provided by the wire surrogate‚ the baby monkeys preferred to cling to

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