ANT 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Competitive Exclusion Principle, Limiting Factor, Phylogenetics
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Body mass- f47kg, m 60kg (not monomorphic) Mainly terrestrial and a knuckle walker (like gorillas) They protect the females from other male groups in surrounding territories. Mo(cid:374)keys ((cid:373)o(cid:374)keys are their fa(cid:448)orite thi(cid:374)g to eat, usually the higher ones are able to eat it: sometimes resort to cannibalism. Manufacture and use many types of tools: every day they make and use tools. Learned with regional variation (culture: different tool kits for different forests, learn from their parents. Bipedal when carrying things (common chimps too: said that they do it more than the common chimp. Core of social group band of unrelated females cooperate to collectively dominate males: females protect each other from males, males inherit their rank from their mothers. Female bonds reinforced by sex: they rub their clitoris against each other, males will rub their penis together, known as penis fencing.
