BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 – Chapter 11
11 Feb 2017
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The practice of pursuing living things for food, recreation, trade, pest control, etc. Hunting of other primates has been documented in the chimp and recently one population of bonobos. Baboons (owm) are known to hunt vervet monkeys and other mammals and birds. Hominins evolved strategies for dealing with lack of food in the dry season. Early hominins probably hunted meat, like chimpanzees and bonobos do today. They also probably had a broad die that included otherwise suboptimal food sources during the dry season. Unlike orangutans, early hominins probably lived in multi male and multi female groups. Food sharing may have been most important to early hominins (especially mother- offspring, as in chimpanzees) 3 types of foraging (in increasing difficulty: collection, extraction, hunting. Chimps and humans expend different degrees of effort on different types of foraging: chimps more involved in collecting, humans more involved in hunting.
