BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gombe Stream National Park, Jane Goodall, Congo River
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Apes differ from other monkey in dental and skeletal traits, brain size, and life history patterns. Apes generally have relatively log arms, short legs, long fingers, short stiff spine. This monkey selfie the monkey owns the copyright. Lesser apes: refers to their being smaller and having less sexual dimorphism than all of the great apes. Congo river separates chimpanzees (right bank) and bonobos (left bank) Gorillas also live on the right side. Mating system: monogamy, polygyny (males with lotsa females, polyandry (females with lotsa males, promiscuity (many with many) Orangutans: live solarity (males and females maintain separate (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) territories) promiscuity, with males competition for access to females (cid:1) (cid:1) Ex. gorillas: live in harems; 1 male (silverback) , many females, offspring. (cid:1) Chimpanzees: live in multi-male, multi-female groups, male dominated. Bonobos: live in multi-male, multi-female groups, more sharing of the power, elder females in the group are central, strong female-female bonds,
