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Summary: In the article, Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research by Ed Yong, he approaches the issue of the rights to apes confronted by a pending Spanish law. The Great Ape Project (GAP), established in 1993, demands a basic set of morals and legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans. In June, GAP was able to persuade the Spanish Parliament’s environmental committee to approve a resolution supporting these goals. Fortunately, other countries also took steps to protect great apes from experimentation.
The primate freedom organization protects primates from inhuman experimentation in hopes to stop animal experimentation. They also donate Primate Freedom Tags and provide research to other organizations. Finally, they write articles for campus publications, foster community, and campus-based Primate Freedom Projects, and work to connect all primate freedom efforts
howler monkeys live in south america in the tropical forest.the Howler monkey has a very deep howl. Threats to howler monkeys are human,predators,habitats being destroyed. What 's good about their habitat is that they have lots of leaves to eat in their habitat at the rainforest. Howler monkeys only howl when its the beginning of the day and the end of the day. They also eat nuts in the forest.
The article, “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?” by Ed Yong is trying to convince the reader to see a different side to primates. The Great Ape Project set legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutan. United Kingdom and New Zealand protect great apes from experimentation. For the Great Ape Project they are basically setting laws and higher standards for primates to me experimented on or held captive.
It’s very interesting how primates groups are divided, kinda like a tower, and if one of them wants to be the superior one, Males have to work his way up to power. Another big factor of why dominance is very important is that the more dominant the male is the more attention he acquires from the females. In a primates primate group the Bonobo’s the female are the dominant. Since they are the ones that have the control. Almost all of the groups the male is the dominant but their is one unique group that stands out
Great apes’ such as bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas perspective—talking skills has increased throughout the years. The hypothesis they’ll be investigating will be the prediction that bonobos, and chimpanzees show a greater understanding of the role of barriers in visual perception than would other apes. The method involves a long procedure and setup for their experiment, they had many different subjects of apes housed indoor and outdoor at the Leipzig Zoo, Germany. The design and method of this experiment was to set up four conditions resulting from crossing the variables of target presence and barrier type. The four variables were opaque-target condition, opaque/no-target, window-target, and window/no-target.
Chimpanzees are the opposite, they are run by a Polygynous social structure. This means that they are run by one Alpha male in a group of females. This is probably because Chimps have a society that is built on power, and Bonobos are probably so peaceful because their behavior revolves around sex. Another key difference is how Bonobos and Chimps react when they greet or interact with another group. Chimps will usually go around patrolling their territory and if anyone intrudes their area, they viciously attack or kill intruders.
Beyond grooming, though, humans and non-human primates have other social behaviors to encourage bonding such as recreational
On page 26 of The Lost City Of Z: A Tale Of Deadly Obsession In The Amazon, David Grann Presents information on how the “Roar” of the engine sent animals “Scattering” into the Treetops. The animals that David Grann is referring too are known as “Howler Monkeys”. Howler Monkeys are native to the South and Central American Forest. I’m going to explain to You more about what a Howler Monkey is, like how big the Howler Monkey can get, how they Got their name, and just how lazy these monkeys can really be. Howler Monkeys are native to the South and Central American Forest, these monkeys are Among the largest of the New World Monkeys.
Wolves are very social creatures that rely on their pack to survive. As they travel together in packs, they are able to use each other as protection and support each other. Humans are very similar in this sense, as they benefit from need to interacting with others in order to sustain strong mental health and avoid troublekeep from causing problems. Human interaction plays a very important role in society. Without it, people become lonely and get into trouble.
Studying captive primates can help us learn not only how they behave, but also how they are similar or different to each other and humans as well as give us insight into the effects of captivity. This paper will be describing, comparing, and contrasting the behavior of two species of captive primates at the Alexandria Zoo, golden lion tamarins and howler monkeys, as well as discussing the possible effects captivity could have had on them. This paper will also discuss any human-like behaviors observed in the two primate species and what we as humans could learn about our own behavior by studying primates. The two primates I observed were 1 of 3 golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) all of unknown gender and a solitary female howler
Through history there has been evidence to help support the claim that climate change has influenced the evolution of primates. Scientific evidence has proven that during certain climate spikes such as the swamp age, apes in the given territories that encompassed Africa led a migration to the Asia and Europe territories. The same climate changes that was responsible for the creation of the Swiss Alpes and other phenomena, has been associated with the adaptation, extinction, and migration. As weather changed in certain areas, the land became more dry making it harder to obtain and hunt food. Climate change, in theory, led to the extinction of the Sivapithecids apes because of the inability that the species has to obtaining food.
Howler monkeys are one of the largest New World monkeys found in South and Central America, more specifically found in tropical forests of eastern Bolivia, northern Argentina, southern Brazil, and Paraguay. They live in large social groups that contains all of the family members such as parents, siblings, aunts and other relatives. They form a family of 8 or more members that stay and survive together. A unique fact about their group structure is that some of the male and female will leave the group they were born in and move on to join a total new group, with the majority of their lives growing up is spent in groups they weren’t born in or related to. Male and female howler monkeys are quite different in their appearance.
Animals and humans share more in common than you think. Although we don't necessarily look the same, we share the same emotions. Including happiness, sadness and many other traits. Other than emotions animals can act similar to humans as well. For example, animals may show that their scared by hiding or running away just like humans.
One example of that friendship is from “Monkey Master”. In paragraph 8, the texts states “He moved Congo to a high chair for comfort”, Morris, the human is being friendly to Congo, the chimp, by giving the animal a nice place it sit while he paints. Another piece of evidence is from the story “My Life With Chimpanzees” in paragraph 47 it states, “Gradually as the weeks went by, I began to recognize the chimps more and more”, this shows a friendship or bond between the the human, Jane Goodall, and the chimps that would come visit her everyday. When humans come to realize the differences in personality between the same species a bond forms.
