Following her presentation at the Rwanda Fete on September 20‚ conservationist and author Dr. Amy Vedder gave a lunchtime talk to staff‚ docents and volunteers. Doctor Vedder‚ who is currently a lecturer at Yale University‚ along with her husband Dr. Bill Weber‚ founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in 1979 to let the world see and experience gorillas in their wild Rwandan habitat. Dr. Vedder talked about her first professional experience with the mountain gorillas‚ at Dian Fosse’s Karisoke Research
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Did you ever want to be paleontologist‚ now you can. Fossils are the oldest rocks on earth. They can be anything that was over 4‚000 years ago. Fossils are what tell us what come before humans a million years ago. Do you ever stop and think there might be a T. Rex under your house. Well fossils preserved remains of organisms. Fossils can be over 4‚000 or a million years old. Usual the preserves are of animals. Fossils arranged from the size of a mouse to a ten story building. This is how all those
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To what extent can humans be considered distinct from other animals? What makes humans differ to other animals? Are humans in fact different at all? And if they are what makes them different? There are many different perspectives and viewpoints in research in psychology that helps distinguish whether humans are in fact distinct from other animals. At initial glance it would be argued that there is a distinct difference in the use of language and its interpreted meaning between one human and another
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Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal chronicles a colony of 23 chimpanzees who live in an outdoor‚ open-air space at the Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands. Of these 23 chimpanzees there are four males: Yeroen‚ Luit‚ Nikkie and Dandy. The colony also consists of three female subgroups‚ the largest made up of Mama‚ Gorilla‚ Franje‚ Amber and three children‚ Moniek‚ Roosje and Fons. The second largest subgroup includes Krom‚ Spin‚ Jimmie and her two sons Jakie and Jonas. And the third female subgroup consists
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Bonobos: The bonobo is an in interesting species because it shares more than 98 percent of our genetic profile‚ which makes it very close to a human. It is believed that the human line of ancestry‚ along with the line of bonobo and chimpanzee‚ split about eight million years ago (http://songweaver.com). The bonobo is closely related to the chimpanzee but it is considered to be a different species (pygmy chimpanzee). When one looks at a bonobo‚ they may think that it looks a lot like a chimpanzee;
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Jane Goodall Major Topics and Research Methods Jane Goodall is a psychologist who studies the relationship between humans and chimpanzees. Jane starts her research by moving to Cape Town in Africa and meeting up with Louis Leaky‚ who hired her to do some research with him. After observing how serious and methodical she was‚ Leaky selected her to do a study of chimps and he obtained the necessary funding for the project. Goodall research methods are very different then most researchers. Goodall
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Primate socio-ecology varies and has different determinants that decide many different characteristics. As a virtual paleontologist‚ we discovered two different sites and skeletal remains in Kenya and deductively reasoned their mating habits‚ group size‚ and several other characteristics about the Praeanthropus dimorphicus and the Praeanthropus monomorphicus with what I know about primate socio-ecology. Based on my prior knowledge‚ logic‚ and reasoning‚ by looking at skeletal remains we are able
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Chimpanzees are categorized in the order primates; suborder Catarrhini and family Hominidae.They are the closet living relatives. Today‚ there are two species of chimpanzees: Common Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) and bonobo (Pan Paniscus)‚ both are in the same category as humans‚ monkeys‚ and gorillas. Humans share with them 98% of the genetic code and according to experts “believe our common ancestor existed 5 to 8 million years ago. Then two species broke off into separate lineages‚ one ultimately
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In a small world where human and apes are considered alike I would like to tell you the differences between. Apes and human are different in many ways‚ one of which being our way of thinking. Our way of living are considered very different. Our ways of transport seem to be a very unique way to get to a place then what the apes would prefer. And this defies the unique characteristics that keep man and ape separate from thinking alike. Though man and primate have similar states of being‚ men have
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What separates us humans from the rest of the animal kingdom? The first thing that comes to mind is our brain and our ability to reason. Our brain is not the largest one in the animal kingdom‚ yet it allows us the capabilities that far exceed others. Being able to reason and think we can be introspective‚ be aware of right and wrong‚ and establish a justice system. With all those capacities‚ there come negative attributes as well. We are the only species that commit premeditated murder and genocides
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