ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropology Notes
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Social organization is multiple-male polygyny0 multiple-male, multiple-female troop structure. Mating patterns vary from :promiscuity to short-term pairbonding. Males are territorial and will attack males from other troops. Males remain in the troop in which they were born, whereas females emigrate from their birth troop. Often used as a model for understanding earliest human ancestors. Do chimps have culture : evidence of culture is populational differences in tools and behavior, and these differences seem to be unrelated to local ecological conditions. Diet is folivory: gorillas primarily eat vegetation, such as leaves, buds, and pith, do not eat meat. Gorilla locomotion is quadrupedal knuckle-walking on the ground. Gorilla morphology: arms are longer than legs. Marked sexual dimorphism in body size; males are two times larger than females. Social organization is single-male polygyny, with a single adult male and several adult females and juveniles: the single adult male is the silverback, indicated by the grey hair on his back.
