ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jane Goodall, Galago, Kanzi
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Reflection points: ape genius - pbs nova special. Apes do not have a shared commitment for a shared goal. Chimps can develop an ability to facilitate numbers. A chimp has learned to order numbers in ascending order. When numbers are covered, the chimp remembered the location of the number. But took more time to learn each number. Apes are limited in cooperation because of emotions, rivalry, violence, and impulsion. Pay attention to the different examples of tool-use in apes. Chimps water to displacement to get nut out of the tube making spears to hunt bush babies sharpens the tip of a branch, drives the spear into a cavity where a bush baby may live. Using a big stick as a shovel to open the ground, then switch to slender probe to fish out the termites. Pay attention to the different behavioural experiments performed on apes. Learning by imitation is an essential skill for culture.
