Chimpanzee

In Frans de Waal’s Ted Talk, “Moral Behavior in Animals” the speaker discusses the concept of morality that is prevalent in animals and how the morality has been tested and identified. First Waal introduces human morality by using an example of a painting by artist, Hieronymus Bosch, titled, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” which conveys an image of humanity prior to its potential downfall. From this painting, Waal contemplates if morality would exist in humans if they had not been interested in…

seeming to have been taught to do so. The reason Hume’s second argument is less persuasive than the first, is that the second argument does not seem like it can be proved independent of the first argument – using the chimpanzee example, it is impossible to know whether a chimpanzee is using tools due to instinct, or is using tools because it had seen other chimpanzees using tools…

essential difference. Human beings are the only animals that can self-reflect, while non-human animals rely solely on instinct. Animals can be taught to do almost anything a human being can do. However, they cannot assess that they are alive. A chimpanzee, the human’s closest…

Neam ‘Nim’ Chimpsky, an infant pygmy chimpanzee who had been raised among humans and taught ASL, was able to sign at a very basic level with his trainees. He could even efficiently combine more signs, generally two or three; however, combining more signs did not always result in a different general…

“Describe some research studies which have addressed the issue of whether non-human animals have a “theory of mind ', and explain what these studies have allowed psychologists to conclude in answer to the issue.” Chimpanzees are humans closest relatives and therefore are a good animal to study when attempting to assess whether non human animals have a theory of mind. This essay will attempt to first define what is meant by theory of mind, then will look at three studies and their approaches to…

“Cooperation is what makes us human” vs “Thought In the essay “Cooperation is what makes us human” the author determines the reason why cooperation makes us human. The author analyzes by using specific examples the differences that we have between animal’s cooperation and Human beings cooperation, while in the “Thought experiment” essay the author point out two kind of life’s perception. While analyzing these two essays, I had two important questions in mind, which is how and why these two…

Imagine being poked and prodded. Then being injected with an unknown substance that makes you feel different. And this same process goes on and on for multiple different injections. On top of the many injections your receiving your also food and water deprived. You are also placed in a physical restraint for prolonged periods of time that often leads to multiple injuries. Eventually you’re scared of everything, if it moves you scream, if it comes close to you, you scream. But guess what, you…

Bright, fluorescent lights shine down, irritating his eyes as a man in a long, white coat pokes needles into his arms. The air is stale and the smell of disinfectant is almost suffocating. His thick arms are restrained and his mouth can form no words, which is just how the man in the long, white coat wants it. Before long, he becomes vocal, screeching to make the pain come to a stop, and it does when he loses consciousness. As he comes to, his need of thirst becomes apparent and he bangs on…

Culture is a society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas and characteristics used to generate behavior and reflect behavior and other primates besides humans, like gorillas, chimps, and orangutans do, in fact, have culture. Chimps copy each other into adulthood developing cultural behaviors by imitating their peers and research on gorillas, chimps and orangutans have shown they use tools, communicate with each other and even mourn the deaths of each other. This research paper will explain…

Bonobos and chimpanzees are a unique pair of organisms that are a great example of how two different species are so closely related, but are so distant in characteristics. Both bonobos and chimpanzees fall with in the same genius but are two different species altogether. Two million years ago both bonobos and chimpanzees originated from the same common ancestor, making the genome of the two species about 99.6 percent identical. Yet, differences between bonobos and chimpanzees are revealed when…