ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Common Chimpanzee, Pineapple, Birmingham City Centre
4 Nov 2017
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Homerange- the overall area over time where a primate would reside, usually overlaps, highly varied. Territories: area to defend, area that is defended: animals will be less/more territorial depending on circumstance, resources, etc. Males can be twice as big as females. Diane fossey- studied chimps and gorillas, went to rwanda, worked with mountain gorillas, noted they spend many time eating roots and fruit. 500g is the di erence between animals that can eat bugs and plants. Some are silverback that are uni male multi female setup. Quit pro quo animals (gorilla trading pineapple bits for individual keys) Compared to gorillas: chimps spend more time in trees, smaller body size. Bipedal locomotion (less than 1 percent, but does still happen) Fission fusion society make groups and subgroups that might not even interact with other subgroups, sometimes mother and infant, very uid. Chimps are inusual, male bonded, female dispersal (males stay together, females disperse, so males have strong bonds within each other)
