Chacma Baboon Essays

“Hibernation is animals snuggle up in caves, burrows or hollow tree trunks and sleep during the cold winter months when food is harder to find and cold weather makes it harder for their bodies to work”.(Sabra, Sep 21,2015) These hibernation not only occurred in people but also occurred in animals. The hermitage of people and animals are different. People may be meditating, but unlike animals which depends on three factors. It is weather, animals behavior and life when hibernate. The first factor

Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among Baboons the author Robert Sapolsky describes many differences within a baboon troop he decided to observe for more than twenty years. There are many differences he describes for example the differences of sex and the age difference between them. In his work Sapolsky uses names for some of the baboons and describes the relationship between them. The names he used were based on Old Testament Figures. Sapolsky states that baboons live in big groups and their members

Gorilla in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigouney Weaver based on true story of naturalist Dian Fossey work in Rwanda with mountain gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards. She is the second Leakey’s Angel which studied gorillas for 18 years and wrote about her research in the bestselling book Gorilla in the Mist about the relationship between humans and animals. She was born in San Fransisco, California in 1932 and she worked as physical

Scientists discovered that by studying nonhuman primate behaviors allow us better understand of our own species behavior. Nonhuman behaviors consist of variety. There are five different sectors of primate behaviors, including: aggression, sexuality, infant care, communication, and the last but not least is grooming. Grooming is the main function of bonding in both human and nonhuman anthropoid primates. Grooming involves tidying, cleaning, and brushing oneself or another. For Old World monkeys