Mountain Gorilla

This paper will center on the nature of diachronic personal identity; specifically, bodily continuity personal identity as my stance. I will define a person, and explain the difference between synchronic and diachronic thoughts of personal identity. Next, I will analyze Lock’s stance on synchronic and diachronic personal identity. Afterward, I will analyze Reid’s perspective & objections against Lock’s view of diachronic personal identity. Per the objections outlined by Reid, I will explicate…

hungry anymore I decided to go look for the two primates that I would be looking at. The two species of primates that I chose to observe were two kinds of apes, the Western Lowland Gorilla, scientifically known as Gorilla gorilla gorilla and the chimpanzee also known as, Pan troglodytes. The Western Lowland Gorillas are apes that can be found in…

understanding of sex differences in feeding in Gorillas. The main focus of this study is to assess whether males or females spend more time feeding. It is predicated that male gorillas will spend a greater amount and proportion of time feeding, due to their larger size. Methods: Observations were made at the Calgary Zoo during scheduled laboratory time (Thursdays, 2:00-4:45pm) November 19, 2015 and November 24, 2015; a group of Gorilla gorilla (gorillas) consisting of 5 individuals- Zuri, Kioja,…

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…

Sloths Sloths are medium sized animals. Two toed sloths have only two fingers and three toed sloths actually have three toes. Sloths are part of the order Pilosa so they are related to anteaters and armadillos. Sloths are tree dwelling animals, they are found in the jungles of Central and South America. A sloths scientific name is Folivora. A brown throated sloth usually sleeps for around 15 to 18 hours. A pale throated sloths gestation period is 183 days. A brown throated sloth weighs around…

Two of the most distinct features that separate humans from the other great apes are bipedalism and large brain to body size. But how did these features become so prominent? Approximately 6-7million years ago, the hominid lineage began to separate from the other ape species. Tracing the evolutionary history through fossil evidence explains how early hominids evolved to become today’s most prolific primate species. The goal of this paper is to discuss the physical characteristics that indicate…

there must be teacher involved. The significant part is that rather there being a human teacher there’s a gorilla, so absolutely the student applying for the job is panicked and screams for help. In other words the student was choked up and cursing for mankind to come to the rescue. These lines give us a basic summary of the actions the student took once applying for the job. “ “Ishmael is a gorilla who can telepathically teach about the culture of leavers and taker, dies while part of a circus…

Jane Goodall’s discoveries has led to the proof of evolutionary psychology as she has successfully explained and derived useful mental and psychological traits as functional products of chimpanzees. In 1960, during her field observation research, Jane witnessed chimpanzees making tools which they would later use. This is the beginning of Jane’s proof of the human link with chimpanzees, as tool making is considered to be one of the defining characteristics of man kind. Later on, Jane has observed…

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 (Gallup, 1985; Shillito et al., 1998) and the gorilla neocortex is relatively small when compared to other great apes (Dunbar et al., 2009). Given the…

Koalas have undergone an interesting history as they evolve from their Perikoala palankarinnica ancestors. Koalas have a an extremely slow metabolism that is another way in which it is believed that the Koalas evolve. Koalas live in trees and there ancestors once swam really good now they are every lazy. Koalas can live for a very long period of time,Experts also say that their diet is part of their evolution.Koalas used to eat and consume lots of plant, they adapted this food in order to…