ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Western Lowland Gorilla, Bonobo, Gibbon

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 131
• Professor: Birute Galdikas

Document Summary

*classification of great apes have underdone a change. Hominiade: great apes and humans: great apes used to be placed in a serperate family, pongidae, but now included in. Hylobatidae: bones are curved ex. more secure grasp to tree, tropical rainforests, male+female pairs. Hominidae: 4 generea, orangutans (2 species, gorillas (2 species, chimpanzees (2 species, modern humans. Orangutans: not social fairly big (male a lot larger than females) Western gorillas: western lowland gorilla (male, cross river gorilla (female) Eastern gorillas: eastern lowland gorilla, mountain gorilla, largest living primate. Common chimpanzee (pan troglodyte: very closely related to humans. Bonobo (pan paniscus: darker faces than chimpanzees, lankier, plants, bananas, insects, meat. Nest building: build (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:374)est e(cid:448)ery (cid:374)ight (cid:449)/ lea(cid:448)es, do(cid:374)(cid:859)t share nest (only w/ mother +children) Tool use: have powerful jaws, uses rocks. Jane goodall: dian fossey, birute galdikas, recruited to research by louis leakey. Captive studies not living in natural settings, can study 24/7, full control.