ARCL-1006EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall
16 Jun 2018
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ARCL 1006
February 5, 2018
Chimpanzees
•Trimates
•Louis Leakey
•Jane Goodall (chimpanzees), Dian Fossey (gorillas), Biruté Galdikas (orangutans)
•Primatologists, New Chimpanzees
•Jane Goodall
•Craig Stanton (colobus and chimps)
•Richard Wrangham (chimps practicing a primitive kind of medicine)
•Takayoshi Kano (bonobos)
•sugar cane calls down the bonobos
•bonobo mothers never discipline their babies
•bonobos- males stay with their mothers forever
•instead of fighting- bonobos use sex as a means to soothe violence// regardless of
gender or age its to form bonds
•Christophe and Edwige Boesch (chimps in the Tai forest)
•investigating the chimp’s mind
•chimps cracking nuts w trees
•Poachers killing their group- went from 80 to 40 chimps.
•Charlotte Uhlenbroek (chimps)
•Locations
•Tai Forest, Cote D’Ivoire
•Boesch worked with the population there
•Gombe, Tanzania
•jane goodall worked with the population here
•Main Questions
•Do chimpanzees show evidence of culture?
•Specifically:
•hunting methods
•Groups-
•chimps- selfishly hunt together (gombe- open face, all chimps can see/watch)
•Alpha gets the meat, and alpha male shares w allies
