Chimpanzee

Origins exhibit, the first thing that caught my eye was the skeleton structures of the Chimpanzee, the Neanderthal and the Modern Human. On the back of these statues there was a section titled “Meet Your Relatives”. This was interesting because it allowed everyone in the museum to compare themselves biologically to Chimpanzee’s and Neanderthals. One of the interesting facts I learned, structures of the chimpanzee and the neanderthal are similar when it comes to how their brains operate. The…

eat. This was the first time it became clear that humans were not the only animals that use tools. Goodall was also the first person to see chimps work as a group to hunt monkeys and eat their meat. Part of her work involved getting to know each chimpanzee personally. She gave them names instead of numbers. Her work was successful because she saw the animals as more than just research subjects.…

I was introduced to the Baptist religion when I was in kindergarten. A group of people from my town’s Baptist church came to my house immediately after September 11, 2001. They chose to come to our house because they felt moved to preach the good news to my mother who was a firefighter at the time. Their ultimate goal was to spread the good news to our whole family. After they left my house, my mom came into my bedroom to tell me what she had just learned. I listened intently, scared and…

million of years ago. The fact of having a common ancestor with chimpanzees does not mean that humans are descended from these animals. Researchers have affirmed that between all the animals that constitute the apes, humans are more closely related to chimpanzee because of anatomy and genetic comparisons. The human species evolved gradually, and chimpanzees and/or apes did not. Humans and apes are two different species, and it is difficult to comprehend that the chimpanzees and us, only share an…

and I knew Dr. Lemmon and his wife were watching me to see what kind of a mother would I be. Carolyn, Nim's mother, was sitting right there holding Nim, and she knew what was going to happen better than I did." In the movie Project Nim, a baby chimpanzee named Nim was about to be torn from his mother's arms for the benefit of science. After the removal of Nim from his mother, Nim was then placed in a human home in and was to be taught sign language, this was conducted by Herbert Terrance.…

A recent observational study have reported the stone gathering and throwing chimpanzee in zoo suggest humans are not the only ones who can plan for future. In Osvath’s (2010) study, they observed repeated episodes of male chimpanzee named Santino, making piles of stone and picking up a stone and chuck it toward the crowd, causing it to disperse. They found that Santino plans ahead for how he will react to the visitors’ approach to his compound, and that is inconsistent with interpretations that…

emotions, the main root some would say. Affection helps us go off on anger, sadness, all the basic emotions that are able to bloom into a complex emotion. Animals are able to show tiny bits of love whether it be a dog licking its humans cheek, or a chimpanzee stroking it’s mate. Are they truly able to know that they are producing these emotions for other species to see. We however, are able to show that affection and all these emotions to our partners or other humans. We as species are able to…

Theodore a two year old chimpanzee sits in a cage while he watches other chimps week by week get taken out of their cages and some never returning. Today is a different day for Theodore, for he will be taken out of his cage. As Theodore sits in his cage, a woman wearing a long white coat picks Theodore up and carries him to a room filled with other people wearing long white coats. Little does Theodore know that he is about to be used in an experiment that could lead to his death. Animal…

However, they cannot assess that they are alive. A chimpanzee, the human’s closest animal relative, can be taught to act just like any other human being, and do what is thought to be a human characteristic (Chimpanzee). They can learn how to eat with utensils, how to plug numbers in a computer, and even learn how to use tools. However, they cannot reflect on what they are doing. They…

The chimpanzee Caesar, gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Even through he was raised like a child by the scientist, he still hates humans. This movie discusses the ethic problem and mentions human will pay for what they did on…