Essays on Chimpanzee

In the present assignment we are to analyze food habits among chimpanzees and the significance of those throughout the history of evolution of species. As it is well known chimpanzees are our closest surviving relatives with approximately 96 percent of genes being shared between us, humans, and chimpanzees. In the capacity of our relatives chimpanzees have the largest brain among the primates. Moreover, they have certain things in common if not with humans, at least with our predecessors – chimpanzees can use tools, some of which are quite sophisticated. They make their sleeping nests in a rather elaborate fashion which ...

Abrigo do Lagar Velho is a rock-shelter in the Portuguese valley that is famous for the stratigraphic range of the Upper Paleolithic human occupations within that area.

Absolute dating technique (chronometric dating) refers to the process of revealing the age on a certain time scale.

Acclimatization is the response of an organism to a gradual change in environmental conditions by adjusting and sustaining within these changes. Acheulian (Acheulean) is a tool made of stone that had round cutting edges and was used during the Lower Palaeolithic era.

Adolescent growth spurt refers to the sharp growth in height and weight rates t during adolescence.

Aegyptopithecus refers to the extinct primate of the Oligocene Period, resembling a modern-day lemur, whose fossils were found in Egypt. Afar Triangle is the region that is part of the ...

Describe which general fossil primate groups appear and radiate during the following geological epochs: Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene. For each of the geological epochs, identify the general primate group that first appears and radiates during that epoch. In addition, give the time range in millions of years for each epoch and provide at least one example of a specific primate genus and/ or species that is representative of each general primate group. 2. List and briefly describe at least five elements of the post-cranial anatomy found in humans, but not in apes, that facilitate efficient bipedal locomotion. Provide specific ...

used to spend a lot of time in the forests and campsites

Hiking mountains, crossing paths

Wasn’t easy way to stick, but just check this song and feel it:

She was a girl, who wanted to fly

and once she caught a butterfly

So happy, free and flying high.

When she was driving in a car it hit a light, crushing too far

She was unconscious,

almost dead, with steering wheel right in her head.

The doctors made her live once more,

though almost nobody was sure that Julie will be back again with family and friends right then.

The days went past with sun on shore

Cause Julie had her friends once more, Her name remains until she dies A Julie Hill - a Butterfly. Then something happened with my mind , I was ...

Gombe is a national park in Tanzania, one of East African countries. Jane Goodall is the primatologists in this research of the chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe national parks. Goodall today runs an organization to help champion conservation of the environment and other endangered species (Goodall, 2010). Goodall founded Roots and shoots and the Jane Goodall institute through which she runs several of her activities. Although Goodall didn’t have collegiate training when she set out to go to Gombe stream 1960 to study the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community, Goodall's interactions with the primates has contributed a lot to the ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

Decision-Making

“Chimp Minds” is a documentary of Chimpanzees that explores the similarities between chimpanzee and human minds. Unlike other animals that simply act based on instinct, Chimpanzees seem to be conscious of their decisions. For example, the chimpanzees seem to be conscious of their choices of play items. The chimpanzees also take their time before deciding on how to react to a situation. Such a trait mirrors human behaviour and way of thinking. Other animals do not share this level intelligence. For example, when a gazelle spots a lion, it will not spend a lot of time thinking of what ...

Discussion about what factors –genetic or environmental - play the more significant role in humans’ development had begun a long time ago. Scientists conducted many studies to find the answer to the question of what is more important for the development of intelligence, personal traits, lifestyle habits, etc. Some authors adhered to extreme points of view that the only environment shapes a personality (for example, Skinner, founder of behavioristic approach) and other authors considered an influence of nature as foreground force in comparison to nurture (Linden, 2012, p. 54). On the one hand, scientists concluded that influences of genetic ...

Introduction

Nature refers to life in general and the ways living things exist and change out of their own will, while nurture is the care given in bringing up a young one. The novel “We are All Completely Alone” is about Cooke’s family with the narrator being Rosemary Cooke. It shows the nature and nurturing that can take place between two different species. In the novel, Rosemary was a talkative child who stopped talking when she became a young woman as all she did was wrap herself in silence. It was the kind of silence that one wants to ...

Introduction

A primate is essentially a mammal of order primates that contains simians and prosimians. Primates rose from the ancestors that survived in trees of tropical forest. It is important to note that many characteristics of the primates represent the adaptations to life in the tropical forest three dimensional environments. Most species of primate remain at least partially arboreal. For that reason, this paper centers on the characteristics, which define order of primates, specifically contrasting and comparing Homo Sapiens or humans and chimpanzees or Pan troglodytes. These characteristics include locomotion, brain size, tool used, as well as facial expressions and language.

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There are various development processes that a child goes through as he grows up. Through this development process, the children develop a form of communication as well as a language that they can best communicate in. this essay looks at various aspects of child development, and it is expected to shed more light on the development issues.

1. According to Plowden Report (1967, p. 2), language is the media through which people or other living beings use to relay information from one point to another. It is a way through which people pass on their ideas to others in a manner which is acceptable ...

Animal's Common Name: Chimpanzee

Genus & species: Pan Troglodytes The specific behavior (describe): Chimpanzees exhibit differences in feeding behavior in a single day. The chimpanzees show more consumption of the leaves from Pterygota mildbraedii and Celtis Africana in the afternoon compared to the morning (Carlson, Rothman and Mitani 344). This is categorized as diurnal variation in feeding behavior. Is this behavior shown only in certain behavioral contexts, such as in communication, getting food, competition, social behavior, attracting mates, mating behavior, parental behavior, or some other area of activity? This behavior occurs only in a specific context namely the foraging (getting food) ...

Jane Goodall is a famous anthropologist who has spent 30 years of her life in the research of Gombe chimpanzee. She was a nature lover from her childhood and with time she excelled her knowledge in the field and traveled around the globe to give lectures about chimpanzee and environment. Goodall has also established an institute which promotes research and knowledge about chimpanzees and also provides guidelines about ways to protect these animals. Goodall has written numerous popular biology books among which ‘the chimpanzee- the living link between man and the beast’ has attracted an avid number of readers. The book ...

This is a chimpanzee with “The Apple” and not an apple. The Apple Company is a reputable company and known for the production of superior electronic products. The work depicts a chimpanzee operating a laptop from the Apple Company. This only happens in the contemporary world, which is dominated by several acts of innovation and rights of all beings. Chimpanzee has a right as an animal and is entitled to express its opinions depending on the level of its capability. In this scenario, the chimpanzee is alone and in possession of a laptop of which it tends to operate. As explained previously, the Apple ...

Human beings (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) belong in the same order of primates and the Hominidae family. This is because they have common characteristics that lead them to be grouped together in this order. A number of similar biological aspects make human and chimpanzees to be grouped together. Both chimpanzees and humans have highly flexible limbs that end up with five fingers. These limbs for both limbs and hind limbs enable this order of animals to perform various activities such as climbing trees and the use of tools. Human beings and chimpanzees have flexible shoulders and ...

Chimpanzees are natives to the content of Africa. They are great apes and not monkeys. Examples of great apes are bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas. An example of a chimpanzee that lives today is Bubbles. Bubbles were known for being pet owned by the late Michael Jackson where he bought the primate from a research facility in Texas in the early 1980s. Bubbles were a travel companion to the singer and he once taken to Japan by Jackson here they had tea with the mayor of Osaka. Chimpanzees are currently an endangered species. Many chimpanzees used to live in equatorial Africa ...

With reference to Biological studies, homology is the presence of shared pedigree between living organisms in terms of evolution. The homology might be in terms of genetical constitution, or physical constitution, to name a few. Here, I have described the evolutionary homology between various phyla supporting the description with a phylogenetic tree.

Genetic code is the combination of DNA and RNA sequences that constitute the amino acid sequences used in the synthesis of an organism's proteins. It is the biochemical basis of heredity and generally, protein coding amino acids is very similar in all eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The principle differences occur ...

Introduction

The study explored the homological characteristics of 22 species. The organisms were human, pygmy chimpanzee, common chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, white-handed gibbon, macaque (Cercopithecine monkey), horse, bison, cat, dog, bird, bat, frog, rattlesnake, alligator, fish, whale, wolf, pig, bacteria, and cow. The species were categorized as mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, or amphibians. However, humans and apes were further classified as primates. Moreover, the research sought to determine whether the species share characteristics that link them to a common ancestor. The research hypothesis was that if the evolutionary path of the 22 organisms were traced, then a common ancestor would be observed.

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I’m an Australopithecus Afarensis. Our species belong to the family of hominids and lived approximately three million years ago . Accordingly, we are the most resilient hominid species and also the most popular owing to the discovery Lucy and the First Family, which were both found in Ethiopia. Evolutionists believe that we are the earliest ancestors of the human species while others are just undecided because of the many differences that our species possess as compared to the modern humans. At a glance, one would mistake us from the common chimps yet we have peculiarities that are quite ...

According to Whiten et al., empirical research as it relates to chimpanzee culture incorporates differing insights and discernment. It is particularly because different behaviour patterns that include grooming, courtship behaviours, and tool use have been established to be customary in some chimpanzee communities. And absent in some communities (Whiten et al. 1999:682). Based on the research findings incorporated in an article by Whiten et al., it is of utmost importance to denote that chimpanzees have some cultural traits that in essence make it apparent that they have a culture. The findings incorporated in the aforementioned article establish that: chimpanzees differ ...

Have we ever thought of having a chimpanzee or a tiger as a pet instead? These animals are referred to as exotic pets and they have gained popularity around the world. Do you think it is easy to tame a wild animal? The issue of keeping exotic pets such as a tiger or chimpanzee has been a contentious topic with animal activists up in arms over the issue. All of us love pets and we limit it to regular pets while some of us have extended their love of pets to animals like chimpanzees and tigers. Before considering taking a chimpanzee or a tiger as a pet, it ...

The human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, is among the quickest known evolving entities. It multiplies sloppily, piling up lots of mutations during the process of copying its genetic material. It also multiplies at a high speed where one virus can breed billions of copies in only a single day. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS, was first acknowledged as a new disease in the year 1981 during which rising numbers of youthful homosexual men died of strange opportunistic infections, as well as unusual malignancies (Greene). A retrovirus, now referred to as human immunodeficiency virus type 1, HIV-1, was later on keyed out as the ...

Evolution involves the change of inherited characteristics of biological populations in successive generations. The process give rise to different levels of organization and diversity that includes changes in DNA, species, molecular formations, and the basic proteins forming the organism. Human evolution has been a major subject both in history and biology. Many theories have been advance explaining the origin of man on earth. The most prominent of the theories is the Darwin’s Theory on human evolution. Darwin theory of evolution is based on natural selection. The theory explains how the environmental factors and other factors interact to favor ...

For too long, animals that are non-humans have not been accorded the dignity they deserve. The practice is wrong because, chimpanzees do have unique qualities that are essential to the world, if not the society. Take the case of chimpanzees, for instance. Despite the fact that they are one of the closest living relatives to humans, chimpanzees get mistreated when doing biomedical research. What many people fail to understand is that chimpanzees have emotions, consciousness, abstract thought and political behaviour. Humans are treated with dignity and respect because of more or less the same qualities and, therefore, the same ...

Chimpanzees, along with the gorilla and orangutans, are members of the hominidae family, thus making them related to us. Thanks to her passion for animal rights Dr. Jane Goodall has been an avid supporter of animal rights and protection. Born in 1934 in London, Jane Goodall flew to Tanzania to live amongst the chimpanzees. Her work bypassed the more traditional procedures of standing in the background to observe these animals and instead lived amongst them to learn their behaviors. In her early life animals fascinated her, observing birds and other native animals. She would spend her free time ...

Arguably, from the research findings, it is evident that the FACS approach is amenable to alteration for use with all other species of primates; this method allows one to compare and contrast the facial repertoires among many species with distinct characteristics. Developing FACS for chimpanzees has made it easy for us to understand how and why the human facial movements vary from that of the chimpanzees. The apparent difference can be deduced from the varying facial morphology, underlying musculature, and the interface between the two. From the general repertoire, nine commonly seen facial actions have successfully been described and ...

Introduction

The debate as to whether the male species has been the most influential on the primate social structure has been on the limelight of anthropological studies for many years. There have been critics who argue that the female species still remains influentially dominant over the other species. However, there are studies that reveal that the male specie is more influential. In this aspect, the dominance of the gender variables in the society context has been used to determine the dominance of the sexes in key social structures. From a historical perspective, the society has lived to believe that males are ...

Part A.

There has been at least a dozen various human like species since the earliest homid species split from the ancestral line the humans shared with the apes. This was approximately 6 to 8 million years ago. Most of these homid human like creatures are just relatives to the human beings and are not their ancestors. Humans are more closely related to modern apes like gorillas and chimps more they are to the monkeys. It is believed that humankind shares a common ancestry line with the African apes, like chimps and gorillas. And it is believed that this common line of ancestry ...