ANT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuptial Gift, Intraspecific Competition, Guenon
11 Dec 2016
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Big male = deeper voice = more attractive: bird song: repertoire increase = more repro, must be efficient in foraging and practicing the songs. Do they know what they are doing with the tools. One figured it out, and when the tube was flipped, realized he learned to push stick from far side, not to avoid trap. Social knowledge: theory of mind: begging for food experiment. One with bucket over head and one with bucket next to head. Obviously beg with one next to head so they can see u , but chimps just did randomly. -> did not understand the concept ----> more used to competing for food: set another experiment where dominant is hidden from a food source to see if subordinate can understand what dominant can or cant see. Mirror self recog test: children get this at age 2, animals get marked on head ; only some species realize its themselves, some others think its another.
