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Apes and Humans |
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These are few of the higly intelligent animals who maintain cultural identities across populations!! They are the only non human primates who sucessfully recognise themself in mirror tests (self recognition when a mirror is presented, after few exposures). |
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LINKS:
HOME ABOUT ME
PRIMATES
What are PROSIMIANS?
What are the NEW WORLD MONKEYS?
OLD WORLD MONKEYS?
APES AND HUMANS
GUENONS
VIEW GUESTBOOK
JOIN: THE PRIMATE GROUP
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Chimpanzees: They form all types of social organization possible. from solitary, unimale to multimale or diads or triads.
They are higly intolerant of other groups in their territory and a solitary stranger may loose his life on this account.Though gregarious when food is abundant.
Female move out of group on maturation.Male form stable friendship groups. |
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There are two species of Gorilla:
Mountain Gorilla and general Gorilla gorilla
Both are endangered and need urgent conservation effort, major threat being habitat destruction and local consumption of gorilla meat.
They live in multimale multifemale societis with dominance heirarchies.
Females are Patrlineal (i.e remain in the group they were born)male generally move out on maturation.. |
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A Bonobo few people diffrentiate this relative of chimps from actual chimpanzees. |
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Bonbo have a matrilineal socity. Where female is the boss. Their society is famous for types of sexual relations that exist between individuals. Though the frequency of sexual intercourse in bonobo is quite high, they still have reproductive rate equal to chimpanzees. |
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Orangutan : They are the only Ape inhabiting Asia, and also only solitary Ape.
They inhabit tropical rain forests of Asia.
They live solitarily and only form group during breeding season.
Both male and female disperse out of group on maturation
They are also higly threatened by habitat distruction and need urgent conservation action.
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And who need introduction to humans. One species that has overgrown all the other species of mammals put togather.There is still time we understand value of other animals before it is too late ...... |
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