Savage-Rumbaugh Aim To investigate the capacity of pygmy chimpanzees to learn language compared to common chimps‚ and without being trained Participants The two pygmy chimpanzees‚ Kanzi and Mulika‚ were reared in a language rearing-environment‚ with access to their mother. Kanzi was age 4 and his sister‚ Mulika‚ was 3. The two common chimpanzees were also reared in the same environment. However‚ they were ages 9 and 10‚ called Austin and Sherman. Methodology The data was gathered across a 10 year
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Dawn breaks over the horizon in the remote wilderness of the equatorial forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ and a large community of bonobos splits up for the day. Stomach gurgling‚ a bonobo wanders off with his group in search of food. Moving as swiftly and majestically as a gymnast‚ the bonobo swings from tree to tree‚ its kind brown eyes scanning the trees of the Salonga National forest in search of fruits and insects for ingestion. The ape and his group travel together and go about
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The Monkey’s Paw Quiz Name: Mirella Montejano Score: __/25 A. Summary Instructions: Complete the summary of the story below by filling in the missing works. (10) The White family—mother‚ father‚ and son Herbert—are spending a cozy evening at (1)____________ when the father’s friend Sergeant Major Morris drops by for a visit. In the course of telling stories about his travels to (2) ____________‚ Morris reveals that he has a magical (3) ____________that will give its holder
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Maria J. Gaytan Animal Behavior Project Biology Period 1st/2nd Due December 1‚ 2014 The Great Chimpanzees Chimps also known as chimpanzees are the one of the closest living relatives to the humans. Chimpanzees and human beings are said to have an ancestor that lived about four to eight million years ago. Chimps are mammals‚ providing with an omnivore diet .In the wild their average lifespan is up to forty-five years in the wild. They are in size four to five point five and can possibly weight
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The movie is about chimpanzees at home‚ messing around‚ carrying on‚ and getting through life. The other parts are about Miss Goodall and her relationship with chimpanzees. Miss Goodall‚ a remarkable British naturalist‚ has observed‚ befriended and pondered them for years. ’’Among the Wild Chimpanzees‚’’ producers uses old and new film of Miss Goodall‚ put together as a chronicle. At the suggestion of the anthropologist Louis Leakey‚ she traveled in 1960 to a remote part of Tanganyika‚ now Tanzania
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Do Non-Human Primates Have Culture? September 26‚ 2011 Andrew Baron Do non-human primates have culture? Let’s first start off by asking ourselves; what distinguishes us from other primates? It used to be said that what distinguished us from other anthropoids was our use of tools. With new discoveries in the world of anthropology‚ we found that other apes such as chimpanzees use tools effectively in order to sustain their everyday life. This definition then became nullified‚ and a search for a
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Every time I see a brown bear and panda at a zoo‚ I thought they were the same animal but just different color and live in different habitats‚ because they are members of the bear family. Since I thought they look the same‚ I thought they would act similar. But when I started to research more about pandas and brown bears‚ they are very different animal. Pandas and Brown Bears have similar shape‚ but are very different and unique animals. Both pandas and brown bears have physical characteristics that
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Language is defined as highly elaborated signaling‚ and it’s also the key to understand and be understood. Human beings start to acquire language from the moment they are born. We can say that language and communication are the heart of the human experience whether communication is face to face‚ in writing‚ in signs‚ in body language etc. When spoken language is compared with other forms of communication‚ we can affirm that only humans are able to use real language to communicate. Animals for sure
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Stubbles Deep within the Chocolah Jungle lies a community of chimpanzees. The first time the small chimp Lulu opened her eyes and looked up‚ she saw her smiling mother. Her short brown hair was swaying in the soft breeze. Next to her mother was her father smiling as well but‚ with a hint of sadness in his eyes. She reached up her tiny hand already curious about the cause of his troubled look. She was distracted by a whoop of a chimp swinging past in the trees and barely caught a glimpse of its
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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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