ANTH 1001 : Exam 2
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2/17/2012 4:38:00 pm: non human primates are very intelligent, do well on human test, test to chimps and college freshman, same scores, very gentle & social creatures, if they feel threatened or provoked, they can attack. Chimpanzees: very mean, strong, aggressive, rip your faces off, not domesticated. Kind of primates: prosimians (not monkey, smallest of the primates, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, apes. Primate studies: descriptive, earliest trend in primate studies, observational, long term observational studies, still going on today since then, researcher"s spending years and decades in the field, centered on behavior, social organization, jane good all. Started in 1960, only 20 years old. Studied in wild of africa with undergrad degree. 18 months before she encountered chimpanzees that didn"t run away. Observed chimps making and using tools: dian fossey. Gorillas of the mist movie based on her book. Observed and studied that gorillas are vegetarians and run from humans. Can be aggressive if they feel threatened.
