On a trip to San Diego Zoo on March 23‚ I learned about the variety of primate species. Three species that will be analyzed here are the Wolf’s Guenons‚ the Mandrills‚ and the Siamangs. Wolf’s Guenons‚ Old World monkeys‚ are found at south of Africa’s Congo River. Their habitat is forests‚ woodlands‚ near rivers and streams. They have a unique way of jumping from tree to tree: they aim at the center of dense clump of foliage and leap. When they land‚ they scramble through the branches and find a
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presence of another” (Investigating psychology‚ 2012 p. 193). Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth are two famous psychologist who provided us series of experiments to understand the attachment in terms of psychology. HarryHarlow started the experiments on monkeys and Mary Ainsworth focused on human infants’ behaviour. There are various similarities and differences in their sets of experiments by using different techniques. Harry Harlow was an American psychologist who studied the infants bond with their
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“On Being Sane in Insane Places” It was very interesting to read about Rosenhan’s study and how psychiatrists‚ who go through big coursework and training‚ could wrongly classify a patient. It surprised me how some psychiatrists couldn’t say they don’t know what’s wrong with patients instead they could possibly diagnose someone as insane. Though reading this chapter I found the strange things from Rosenhan’s study that was hard to believe. Slater states‚ “The strange thing was‚ the other patients
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they interact with. For example‚ individuals who spend more time in proximity to one another will generally be friendlier and less aggressive to each other - showing that the animals form close bonds with some group members. Dr Aureli explained: ’’Monkeys and apes behave as if they take into account the quality of social relationships‚ for example whether they are friends or non-friends. Emotion can mediate the assessment of one’s own relationships and guide animals’ decisions on how to interact with
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Richard Preston In October of l989‚ Macaque monkeys‚ housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston‚ Virginia‚ began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys‚ imported from the Philippines‚ were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. Dan Dalgard‚ the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys‚ feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever‚ a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless to humans. Dr. Dalgard decided
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knows exactly where filoviruses come from. Ebola has been occurring in microbreaks in Africa for some time now. A virus doesn’t usually kill it’s natural host because then it couldn’t jump species easily. Ebola is believed to have originated from monkeys in Africa. Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River‚ a tribune of the Congo River. There are three filoviruses: Ebola Zaire‚ Ebola Sudan and Marburg. Ebola Zaire is the most lethal strain‚ Ebola Zaire first occurred in 1976. Ebola Zaire kills
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Medicine Men Dr. Chris and Dr. Xan experience a lot of doubt‚ frustration‚ fun‚ hard work‚ exhaustion‚ and numerous other things in their participant observation in the jungle of the Congo. They first arrive in one of the main cities of Africa. Chris and Xan visit a medicine store packed with dried reptiles and other animals. The shop owner shows them a chimpanzee head‚ and tells them that it is a gorilla head. The Dr.’s reaction is that the store owner is ignorant‚ not only because
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so therefore it is thought of as sacred food. “...as Kulfi became more and more ambitious‚ more and more sure of what she was doing‚ just one whiff was enough to send [the family] wild.” (103) Another instance would be with Sampath and the Monkeys. Sampath often uses food in his explanations when giving advice to his followers from up in his tree; "Once you open a bottle of soda water‚ you should drink it before it goes flat." (121) Also Sampath often dreamed about exquisite foods and exotic
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movement. Encouraged by her husband Diego Rivera‚ Frida documented major events in her life. She was a great painter and expressed her feelings through her expressive colors and symbolic imagery. Frida also showed her love for animals‚ she had a few pet monkeys and a pet fawn in which she painted. She has inspired many people throughout the years with her political and emotional artwork. Although many of her works contain surreal elements they cannot be called surrealist‚ because she never entirely frees
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Did you know that‚ there are more then 115 million dogs‚ cats‚ rabbits‚ monkeys and other mammals that suffer and die each year due to animal testing. Do you agree that these animals should be killed? I am going to be talking to you about why we should stop supporting companies that do animal testing. I believe that it is appalling and disgusting to do animal testing for human experiments. Imagine living inside a locked cage without any control over any aspect of your life. You can’t choose when
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