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
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.
Mariah Rocole APES 8-20-15 Endangered Species Today, 17,000 species are threatened to become extinct. The Pan paniscus more commonly known as the Bonobo, is an endangered species from the African continent. The Bonobo lives in the Congo Basin in Africa.
1. Planet of the Apes (1968) How it goes: Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet. In this world, gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees dominate societies, while humans serve as slaves. Twist: It turns out, the unknown planet was Earth all along, ruined after a global thermonuclear war.
When I first read about the Scopes Monkey Trail I wasn’t sure what side I wanted to choose. While both sides made great points I agree more with the school teacher John Scopes and his attorney Clarence Darrow. If I was a juror I would not vote to convict John Scopes. Often Christian parents try to shield their children from anything they feel is unchristian like. These children aren’t going to live in Dayton, Tennessee their whole lives, when they go off to college or move away from home there are going to be people whether it’s a professor, spouse, coworker or friend that will teach them about evolution and other subjects the parents my feel are unchristian like so why not prepare them for their future and teach them these things now?
Humans have been examining and studying non-human primates for ages in an attempt to further understand the reasoning behind human behavior and base instinct. While it would be ideal to study non-human primates in the wild, away from possible interference from human civilization, that is often not the case, especially for students, and in this case the non-human primates have been observed within captivity. Specifically, the species observed were the Tufted Capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) and the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) at the Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo. The tufted capuchin monkey is most commonly found within the neotropical regions of South America including: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname,
The western lowland gorilla population in the wild is faced by a number of factors that threaten its extinction. Such factors include deforestation, grazing, farming, and the expansion of human settlements, causing forest loss. There is also an association between human intervention in the wild with the destruction of habitats and increase in bushmeat hunting. Surprisingly, habitat loss is not the major driver of ape decline in this region. Rather,
Born April 3, 1934 in London, England , Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall is the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, considering she had been studying the for 55 years. She was always fascinated about animals and Africa and as a child, her favorite books were Tarzan and Dr. Dolittle. After graduating from high school, Jane goes to secretarial school because she wasn’t able to afford going to college. After graduating from secretarial school, she got a job typing documents at Oxford University, after she goes to work at a film studio. On 1956 she receives a letter from her friend inviting her to visit her family in Kenya; she quit her job and became a waitress to save money for her trip.
Primate evolution is very much driven by the changes in climate that happened throughout the time of their adaptations. Climate changes derived from one main source; the movement of tectonic plates. These tectonic plates that are constantly moving away from each other. In addition, the drifts in tectonic plates influence changes in climate because they moved large land masses away from each other to a different location which contained different climate statuses due to leaving them closer or further from the equator a huge decider of climate characteristics. Moreover with climate change, evolutionary adaptations came into play, with various species as well to one of the main features of primates which is their strategies and anatomical features
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
In Chapter 10 of Cultural Anthropology, we learn about the different meanings and importance of how people relate to one another. There are different levels of closeness and intimacy that come with each of the categories. The first bond discussed is friendship; these are the people that we choose to have in our lives with unofficial bonds. These relationships can change and evolve with time as people may drift apart or come closer together. Shared interests, beliefs, and locations can all play a factor in who you form friendships with.
The “Wow” Factor Digital cinematography has become the norm for most films that gain success in today’s movie industry driven by a society wanting bigger and better. The realistic facet becomes an afterthought against the creativity of the movie maker and viewer alike, and today there is an expectation that the viewer will be “wowed” beyond imagination. Special effects are meant to improve and entertainment is meant to thrill. This is apparent in the film “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” released in 2014 which is a remake and extension of the original piece from 1968. Several variations of the movie have been done through the decades, but this latest version increases the effects and takes the film beyond anything previously released.
The concept of good and evil is subjective. Good and evil is just as much of an illusion as a magic trick or a lack of reflection in a mirror. In Bram Stoker’s epistolary, Dracula, Count Dracula himself stands as the natural order of humanity that isn’t influenced by what is considered good or bad and challenges established rules and practices used to control society in religion, science, and moral law, through the interaction with his victims. Through Dracula, he exposes society’s denial to accept what it truly means to be human. Dracula vs Moral Law Growing up, we’re introduced to what is right and what is wrong; what is good and evil.
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.
