Primate

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Cesar must make the challenging decision to either be faithful to his Ape family by going to war or to follow his instincts by trying to keep peace between the Apes and the humans. According to the review written by Bill GoodyKoontz, “Dawn Planet of the Apes is a dark film, daringly so, a sequel to a reboot that makes a solid franchise stronger” (1). The review starts by giving some brief information about the first film Planet of the Apes. It mentions how many…

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…

The Olm Here we have a very unique animal, it is the olm. The olm has many adaptations as well as a unique range and habitat. The way that the olm eats and stores food is a captivating process. Also the lifespan of the olm is a long experience. The reproduction is a unique process. The olm is an amazing species, and the more one researches the olm, the more remarkable the animal becomes. In this paper, one can see all of the amazing finding of the olm. The olm is just the common name for…

Did a simple chimp start this killer disease? Animal carcasses carry any infection they are carrying for three days after they are dead. When people handle these carcasses they contract the Ebola virus. What areas have restrictions on Ebola, all hospitals are on alert, symptoms of Ebola, U.S. response to Ebola in Africa, world struggles to stop Ebola, Ebola virus causes rapid decline in African wildlife, and the U.S. believes to have promising vaccines for Ebola. Ebola is a dangerous disease…

A Book Review of A Primate’s Memoir "I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla". A Primate’s Memoir is an autobiography of a scientist named Robert M. Sapolsky, and the book takes place on a reserve in Kenya. Robert Sapolsky is a brilliant author, American scientist, and he’s practically a member of a baboon tribe. The book is structured around…

Ruby Arndt Ms. Francis English 9 27 April 2018 Silver Spring Monkeys aren’t the type of animal you hear on an everyday basis, however they are certainly important in today’s society. In 1981, Alex Pacheco went undercover as a scientist for the Institute for Behavioral Research. During his work there, he discovered 17 silver spring monkeys captured in small metal cages, all of them suffering from living in their own stench and feces. Many of the silver spring monkeys had lost the movement of…

Ranging from anatomical aspects of wisdom teeth and ear muscles to the behavioral palmar grasp reflex and goosebumps, to the molecular pseudogenes, human vestiges are quintessential imperfections of human evolution (Vieth, 2010). Synonymously referred to as evolutionary “leftovers,” vestigial structures are residual features derived from an organism's predecessors that have lost most or all of its ancestral function (“Evidence for Evolution,” 2016). The existence of vestigial structures is often…

Chimpanzees live in fission-fusion groups in which individuals form subgroups that are fluid and flexible (Goodall 1968). Females are the dispersing sex in chimpanzees (Pusey 1980); thus, there is low variation in the degree of relatedness between females in the same community, and the majority of female-female bonds will not be closely related (Vigilant et al. 2001). Most female chimpanzees emigrate at adolescence, between nine and 14 years old (Nishida et al. 2003). Inbreeding avoidance…

Melancorporcheltox temperagora These nocturnal mammals are the size of a fox, it has four short thick legs and a short curly tail. They have thick wet-proofed black-brownish short, fluffy fur that helps them blend into the shadows of the canopies on the ground and in the little undergrowth at night while they’re hunting. Their fur is able to puff up and out if they’re threatened to make themselves look bigger to scare any possible predators, or to warm their young during hatching and the…

Do you want me to tell you about a gorilla who got shot in a zoo species? Well guess what you're in luck. I’m talking about the western lowland gorilla. They have the same fingerprint as us but also unique nose print. According to National Geographic's, it states that these animals stand at 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) and weigh 150-400 lbs. They have brownish-gray hair. They’re small yet strong. Again according to National Geographic's males are more aggressive and males are known as silveracks. And…