Chimpanzee

such extraordinary cognitive abilities, such as self-awareness, when many other species use tools, hunt, live in unstable environments, engage in group living and navigate complex social hierarchies, and perform elaborate mating displays (Flinn et al., 2005). The gorilla represents a particularly difficult anomaly for these models; despite documented tool use (Breuer et al., 2005) and social group living (Cipolletta, 2004), gorillas fail to consistently demonstrate mirror self-recognition…

Brain and lower spine implants are helping seemly helpless, paralyzed monkeys walk again. For this to work the monkeys need two chips implants. One in their brain and one toward the bottom of their spine. A team of researchers tried to code the computer chip to recognize and interpret signs and signals from the brain that would tell the other parts of the body to move. They then cut a small part of the spinal cord to implant the chip to see if the monkey would be able to move again. It worked.…

The article, “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and Dignity” by Ed Yong, discussed and attempted to promgulate the humane treatments of primates, especially those used for experimentation. Yong also elaborated on the Great Ape Project, an association established to gain a basic set of rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans. Furthermore, he asserted that there are studies and data proving that animals are capable of experiencing pain and other emotions, and…

There were several kinds of giant sloths in South America in the Pleistocene era around 500,000 years ago, and living alongside them were giant armadillos like the glyptodonts. They were as big as rhinoceroses, with armour-plating fitted so tightly together that they looked like huge tortoises. All of these giants were edentata, an order of animals which has evolved into today’s sloths, armadillos and anteaters of South America. Edentata literally means without teeth. The anteaters, which catch…

Lemurs life time Lemurs live in the island areas like, “madagascar and comoros”. They live in this area because of the temperature it is hot and dry there and it has a lot of trees there.”Most lemurs inhabit trees most of the time”. Ringed tailed lemurs love trees because well they are monkeys.They have” black and white rings or stripes on their tail and has gray soft smooth fur, and has a white circle on their stomach.” “They have a black snout and two black circles around there eyes and the…

Owning a pet is seen normal thing. There are more ordinary pets, such as cats and dogs or more uncommon pets like ferrets, birds and snakes. There’s hardly a person who views having a pet as something crazy or immoral. The most common view is of animals just being lesser, sentient but not sapient creatures that are subject to whatever whims human beings choose to impose on them. A slightly less common view is that animals deserve the same rights and protections that human beings do. Within this…

The theory of evolution is that organisms have evolved over time, and have changed to better match their enviroment. One example of evolution is the skeleton of a ape, because over time the ape bones got more upright so instead of walking in all fours they could just walk in two feet. This supports evolution because it shows that ape species evolved over time to be more efficient, and to abel to better adapt to the enviroment by just standing on four legs. It also shows that ape have gotten more…

Primates, a small group of mammals, including monkeys, apes, lemurs, bushbabies, lorises, tarsiers, and humans. Now, what makes a primate different from all animals, one of the reasons being that they have all retained the ancient mammalian trait of pentadactylism. This means that with the exception of spider monkeys, they all have 10 fingers and 10 toes total. Along with their hands and feet, on each finger and toe they all have fingernails, meanwhile they all have opposable thumbs- just…

What pet is the most beneficial to their owners? Dogs, man's best friend received this nickname with good reason. Dogs have lived and evolved with people for a long time, and now there are 70 million of these domestic canines in the US alone. Many studies have shown how beneficial dogs are to their owners. This is because dogs make us healthier. They help improve physical and mental health. They reduce stress, decrease loneliness, and dogs help children develop social and cognitive skills. Dogs…

Animals in Our Lives There are many families who have gone through changes, some good, some bad. Many families also have animals as friends. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the change is positive, other times it is negative; either way, there is no avoiding change. You can learn from animals, they are there for you when needed, and help you go through changes good and bad. John Grogan wrote,…