Great Ape Project

The primate species that I am studying is the Common Squirrel Monkey, also known as Saimiri sciureus. Squirrel monkeys are considered frugivorous and insectivorous, meaning they mainly consume fruits and insects. However, they mainly forage for insects, but in times when insects as scare, they turn to fruits. Examples of insects include orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets) and lepidopterans (moths, butterflies), while fruits include leguminosae (legumes) and sapotaceae (Lima and Ferrari,…

The monkey king tries to fit in by telling all the monkeys to wear shoes. The monkey king was not allowed to go to the party because he had no shoes. The monkey king called his name The great sage equal of heaven, then he told all the monkeys to call him by his new name. All monkeys used to call him The great sage equal of heaven.…

Crested Mona Monkeys are a social and activity species. Their playful personalities and physical features play a role in how they got their common names. The crowned monkey, golden bellied guenon, and Cercopithecus Mona are just a few of their common nicknames, but this creature have the ability to adapt to different environmental pressures that caused a wide spread of subspecies that ranges from the Cross River, south of the Congo Basin, raising to Rwanda, and Uganda. Also this species was also…

One trait that defers between humans and monkey, chimpanzees, and Bonobo's is the size and structure of the pelvic bone and sacrum size. When we look at a human pelvis the sacrum is large and wide in a circle/oval shape, the pelvic structure is thicker in bone size as well as the top of the pelvis has a bigger butterfly effect to it. The Bonobo and monkey pelvis on the other hand is much smaller in both the pelvis shape and sacrum shape. One of the biggest differences is how at the bottom of…

Laneicea Hughes Psychology 102-011 Psych Paper 1 22 September, 2017 Reflections on Mirror Neurons Mirroring neurons has been closely observed in the primate species, some which are mammals in the group based on morphological traits. These traits are based on the behavioral traits, geographical distribution, and the deoxyribonucleic acid. The author's main point is that mirroring neurons allows humans and animals to act and observes actions performed by another. The…

powers monkeys have. As a child, monkeys like Curious George are portrayed as a best friend. But as adults, they are represented as being stronger and smarter than people. Steve Ross, PhD of the Lester Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago once described, “It's a stark contrast in how these animals are characterized by the public." Nonetheless, as a result, these famously…

For this learning assignment, I went to the Pittsburgh Zoo and decided to observe the Lemur exhibit. Lemurs are native to Madagascar. Most lemurs live their lives in trees, but some also live on the ground. Their tails are longer than their body. They have pseudo-opposing thumbs and long toes so that they can climb and hold on to things. Their approximate life span is about eighteen years. Lemurs cannot hang by their tail, which is a common myth. Grooming and socializing is part of their…

A lot of people love animals, and a lot of them have pets, and believe that their pets understands them, and think that they are intelligent, and sometimes these animals, these pets get emotional, and they seem to have consciousness.Through research and observation, it has become clear that animals are similar to humans. there’s many kinds of animals that know what they are doing, and they know what is happening around them. For example the ted talk about Elephants, in why elephants…

be scared or afraid of. The monsters I chose are chimpanzees in the movies, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “King Kong”. They are chimpanzees in both movies and eventually grew to actual apes. The movies both had a relationship bond between an animal and a human. The humans did not feel how the animals felt at first, but soon felt the same way. In the movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” a chimpanzee was raised by a human and grew attached to human related things. Which also made him…

People have a fascination with monkeys and the interest in monkeys is generally due to the similarities they share. What's more interesting is the differences between different categories of monkeys; Old World monkeys and New World monkeys. It’s interesting that many differences arise between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys from generation to generation. Differences such as their anatomy, geography and group sizes are found in each subgroup. The struggle with distinguishing New World…