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| Bonobo Sex and Society | ||
| a. How are bonobos physically different from chimpanzees?
b. How does their social behavior differ from that of the chimpanzee?
c. What does de Waal say is the “key to the social life” of bonobos? Why does he say this? ( http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html ) | ||
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| Primate Facial Expressions | ||
| a. Click on “Facial Expressions.” What are the similarities between human and nonhuman primate facial expressions? What are the biological differences?
b. Go back to the home page and click on “video links.” Watch any two of the videos and give a general description of what is occurring.
c. For each of the videos you watched, describe the use of facial expression. ( http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/~npatel2/ ) | ||
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| Chimp hunting article | ||
| a. Describe the diet of the chimpanzees at Gombe. How much of their diet comes from hunting?
b. What is the importance of seasonality?
c. What are the different explanations proposed for why chimps hunt?
d. What is the effect of chimp predation on the local colobus population? ( http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html ) | ||
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| Primate Fact Sheets | ||
| a. Click on “Family Cebidae.” What are some of the animals included in this family? Pick any two and describe their range, diet, social behavior and means of communication.
b. Click on “Family Cercopithecinae.” What are some of the animals included in this family? Pick any two and describe their range, diet, social behavior and means of communication.
c. Click on “Family Colobinae.” What are some of the animals included in this family? Pick any two and describe their range, diet, social behavior and means of communication.
d. Click on “Family Lemuridae.” What are some of the animals included in this family? Pick any two and describe their range, diet, social behavior and means of communication.
e. Click on “Family hominoidae.” What are some of the animals included in this family? Pick any two and describe their range, diet, social behavior and means of communication. ( http://members.tripod.com/cacajao/factsheets.html ) | ||
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| Careers in Primatology | ||
| a. What is primatology?
b. What academic fields do primatologists generally come from?
c. Click on “Anthropology.” What does the author say about anthropology as a basis for primatology? ( http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/careers/ ) | ||
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| Gibbon Research Lab | ||
| a. Click on “brief introduction to the natural history of the gibbons” and then on “behavioral ecology.” Describe some of the social features of gibbon life.
b. What are some of the different species of gibbons?
c. From the home page, click on “sound samples of gibbon species.” What is different about male and female songs? What is a duet song? Listen to some of the sample gibbon songs. ( http://www.tiho-hannover.de/gibbons/main/begruessung.html ) | ||
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| A Baboon’s life | ||
| a. Why do young males transfer from their group of origin?
b. What are the different ideas for why older males may leave their group?
c. What is life in the troop like for older males?
d. Who do males form friendships with? What are the benefits of these friendships? ( http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9607/9607essy01.shtml ) | ||
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| Amboseli Baboon Research Project | ||
| What is a day in the life of a baboon like? What are some of the activities they engage in?
a. Click on “Baboon social life.” What characterizes baboon social life? Be sure to watch the video examples of baboon social behavior.
b. What have the researchers learned from doing genetic research?
( http://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/ ) | ||
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| Lectures by Dian Fossey | ||
| a. Listen to and summarize “The Beginning” and “One Year Later.”
b. Listen to and summarize the three “Gorilla Diet” lectures.
c. Listen to and summarize “The Story of Cleo” and “The Story of Simba.” ( http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/audio/ ) | ||
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| Lectures by Jane Goodall | ||
| a. Listen to and summarize “A Description of Gombe.”
b. Listen to and summarize “Chimpanzee Mothers”, “Chimpanzee Infants” and “The Mother-Child Bond in Chimpanzees.”
c. Listen to and summarize “Acquiring Food Preferences” and “Fishing for Termites.” ( http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/audio/ ) | ||
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| International Center for Gibbon Studies | ||
| a. What is a gibbon?
b. Where are they found in the wild? Why are many species of gibbons on the brink of extinction?
c. What is the International Center for Gibbon Studies (ICGS)?
d. Read the article on “Management of Gibbons Hylobates.” What are the enclosures like at the ICGS? What does their diet consist of? How are new animals introduced to each other? ( http://www.gibboncenter.org/ ) | ||
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