ANT380H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hugo Van Lawick, Hominidae, Jane Goodall Institute
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Primatology as a career: what is field work like, moments of quiet repose, no electricity, a tin roof constitutes luxury field accommodations. Staff administration: embezzlement is common, cooking, laundering, repairing clothes, resolving disputes, negotiating salaries etc. Semliki: 2 days travel non-stop on bus and car from closest city. Sometimes the environment can be really noisy or annoying: mahale: accessible only by boat, no washing or sewing machines, dangerous - poachers. Increases result of human population increases and need for protein: major factor in declining numbers, crop raiding, attacks on human children, economic issues with economic solution. Increase in protected land would decrease human contact: wisconsin regional primate center, grad school, only do it if you (cid:449)ouldn"t (cid:271)e happy doing anything else, medicine or law = less time, more money. Lesson: advanced and human are not always the same. Lesson: no primate model is a model for humans: look at evolutionary trends not the primate species.
