ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Water Bird, Gibbon, Simian
6 Aug 2020
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They use novel combinations of signs: eg. candy drink, water bird. Private signing chimps aren"t just signing for rewards. Chimp to chimp signing: hug/love, gimme, come, hurry. In three modalities: (eg. to get someone"s attention: auditory (clap, visual (wave, tactile (poke them) Play is highly tactile (rough and tumble) Appropriate gesture use: use the right kind of gesture based on recipient"s attention, repeat gestures if recipient doesn"t respond. Signer vs. nonsigner and familiar vs. unfamiliar they always want to sign with a signer, some only wanted to talk to familiar chimps and others tried to sign to unfamiliars. Dominance: washoe loulis tatu dar. Strepsirhines (lower primates , nocturnal and don"t follow all the traits of primates) Lemuroidea (lemurs only found in madagascar) Cercopithecoidea (owm, includes cercopithecinae and colobinae live in africa and. Hominoidea (human-like primates: hylobatidae- gibbons, pongidae- great apes (chimp, gorilla, orangutan, homininae- humans. *tarsoidea (tarsiers) which are both prosimii and haplorhines, they are an outlier.
