Human Activities Affect Chimpanzee’s Population
Nowadays, human population growth keep increasing and start to expand their territory to explore nature potential. They cut down trees in the forest to get timber for their needed. They don’t realize that they damaging animals’ habitat. Panda, elephant, and tiger are some of the animals that lose their habitat because of human activities. However, chimpanzee is one of the endangered animals in the world. Chimpanzee, as known as great ape is so difficult to find in the African forests. According to World Wide Fund (n.d.), the largest population of chimpanzees is in central Africa, mainly in Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Cameroon. It is about 150,000 to 250,000 individuals. Its
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Human needs more spaces to support their developmental life. That is the main reason why human start to take over the forest for their needed. Humans start cutting down the trees in the forest without realizing that they broke other living things habitat. For example, they build a huge building for office, turn-over the function of forest to agricultural land and the most awful one, people cut down the trees illegally. The transition of life goes fast. As the human population grow faster, the food supply needed is also increasing. That is why people cut down the trees and change the forest for agricultural development. Because of that, many animals lose their habitat. Most of them move to another place to survive, and the problem that chimpanzees face are they cannot find food normally any longer. According to Banks (1999), in general, chimpanzees spend six to eight hours per day seeking for food. They eat a wide variety of food, two hundred different type of plants, and are particularly fond of leaves, fruit, nuts and berries. But now, one by one chimpanzees died because they cannot survive in their new …show more content…
For their experiment, they definitely cannot use human for specimen. So they use chimpanzees as an alternative. According to WWF (,n.d), they found chimpanzee genes has 96% to 98% similarity with humans. It is the main reason why chimpanzees used in the experiment. For example, to find HIV/AIDS vaccine. Until now the researcher cannot find the vaccine for it, but many chimpanzees have been killed for it. Scientists know to find something new, they must sacrifice something. Scientists just focus on finding new medicine, without thought the bad effect for chimpanzee life. Indirectly, the made chimpanzees become endangered animal
There are contrasts in tool kits used by different groups of chimpanzees, which seem to be a result of the environment in which they live as well as information that is shared by the group. For example, in 1973 it was reported that chimpanzees in Gombe did not use hammer stones, but those of Cape Palmas did. We will explore the tool use of Chimpanzees from the wild, including Gombe, Tai National Forest, and the Congo Basin---and contrast those with Chimpanzees in captivity in locations of Zoo’s both in the United States and abroad.
In her essay “A Question of Ethics,” Jane Goodall, a scientist who has studied chimpanzees for years, tries to resolve a heavily debated ethical dilemma: Under what circumstances is it acceptable to cause animal suffering to prevent human suffering? Her answer, however, remains uncertain. Although Goodall challenges scientists to avoid conducting unnecessary tests on animals, she does not explain the criteria by which scientists should determine necessity.
Continuous human degradation of the Cross River gorilla is the primary cause of their dwindling numbers. An amazing species that once prospered in the jungle has been abused to near extinction. Because human interference is the cause of the gorillas decreasing numbers, it is humanities obligation to suspend the practices that lead to their demise. In doing so, we must also explore the options we have to repopulate a species with an intellect second only to humans. Aside from the obvious cruelty of this issue, repopulating the Cross River gorilla is important because the gorillas endangerment is just a byproduct of the unsustainable, and barbaric human interference that is destroying an entire ecosystem. In addition to the extinction of the Cross River gorilla, we will also lose a vast unexplored environment. To end this species demise, we must fight to control the issues that
She is considered to be the worlds expert on chimpanzees and is known for her fifty-five year study of social interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She also has worked expansively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Goodall began studying in 1960 because she didn’t have training directing her research, Goodall payed closer attention to things that other professionals may have looked over. Instead of numbering the chimps Goodall observed, she gave them names. She witnessed these animals to have distinct personalities, which was an alternative idea at the time. Goodall found that, “it isn’t only human beings who have personality, who are capable of rational thought and emotions like joy and sorrow.” She observed many behaviors such as kisses, hugs, and tickling, which was considered only to be “human” interactions. Goodall reported that this is evidence of the supportive and loving bonds that develop amongst family members and other chimps within the community. Her findings suggest the connections and similarities between human and chimpanzees other than just genes alone, but can be seen in emotion, intellect, and domestic and social relationships. Goodall watched as chimps made and used tools in their everyday life, which challenged the belief that humans were the only toolmakers and users of them. In contrast to the affectionate
When it comes to interacting with the environment tool use by chimpanzees is very vital to differentiating their intelligent within their culture. Chimpanzees are some of the very few unique primates that use a variety of tools which makes them stand out as very proficient tool users besides humans. According to David Watts chimpanzees use the tools to enhance their way of living. “Chimpanzees at several well documented sites mostly use tools in extractive foraging, and extractive tool use can substantially increase their foraging efficiency. They also use tools for hygiene and for several other purposes, including attracting the attention of conspecifics, as in leaf-clipping” (Watts 2008, 83). Subsequently chimpanzees are intellectual enough to alter an object to create a tool, and then use the tool for a precise purpose. Then on the other hand chimpanzees use tools to overcome everyday obstacles. As expressed by Watts chimpanzee toolkits mak...
Through Goodall’s research valuable information such as the chimpanzees eating larger mammals such as a bushpig were uncovered. Goodall made a valid argument when she mentioned that the behavior of these chimpanzees may have been comparable to that of our ancient hominin ancestors. Goodall went in to observe the chimpanzees with no previous bias opinion, and this I believe attributed to her successful study of the chimpanzees. Goodall is able to in time get close enough to the chimpanzees in order to gain the knowledge and material needed in order to properly study chimpanzee behavior. Noting the compelling nature of Goodall’s research, I believe that without Goodall’s research the lack of information on chimpanzees and their behavior would be distressing. It isn’t often that we learn of a species that is deemed most biologically equivalent to us, and then find in that study that they are much similar to us. The chimpanzees live in group setting much like humans and our society. Chimpanzees also demonstrated use of tools in order to hunt for food, such as using leaf stems to fish for termites. They also demonstrated predatory behaviors in hunting and killing other larger mammals such as bushpigs, baboons, and other monkeys. In short the chimpanzee is an intriguing species that can be closely compared to
Viewing and observing primates at the zoo and using them as a research subject is crucial to help with the understanding of how humans came to be. Since humans and primates are onwards of 95% genetically similar (Why are Humans Primates), observing them is a great tool to better understand humans and the relationship we share with primates. Though some research done on primates has questioned the morality of such a thing, by not observing our closest ancestors, we would not have many of the answers about humans that we have today. Non-human primates can teach us many things about ourselves, from evolution,to behavioral and social characteristics.
Apes, gibbons, monkeys, tarsiers, lemurs, and lorises make up the diverse and beautiful world of primates. We humans are primates, and there are more 300 species of primates in the world. The smallest primate is the pygmy mouse lemur, which can fit in the palm of your hand. The largest—the gorilla—can weigh more than 400 pounds. Almost every primate species is endangered, and the overhunting and forest devastation has brought some species to within a few dozen heads of final extinction.
I observed chimpanzees in the Kimberly-Clark Chimpanzee Forest exhibit at the Dallas zoo. These African apes, like humans, are hominoids and fall into the larger category of catarrhines. Their scientific classification is Pan troglodytes. There were about ten chimpanzees in that habitat. Most of them were grown adults, except two children. They were robust and had black fur. The average weight of the chimps was listed on a display to be about 115 pounds.
The global phenomenon of bushmeat hunting, which refers to the unsustainable harvest and consumption of non-domesticated, primarily terrestrial animals, poses a significant threat to both biodiversity and human health. Although humans have hunted wildlife for thousands of years, concern regarding the long-term impacts of unsustainable hunting of vulnerable species has grown substantially in recent decades. Primate species face a pronounced impact from hunting, given that approximately 30% of primate species are currently classified as endangered or critically endangered. Exploitation by bushmeat hunting will result in the depletion, and eventual extinction, of many species of primates. The loss of these primate species will consequently significantly
Although the Chimpanzees did spend some time on the trees towards the end of my observation, it did not compare to the amount of time spent on the ground looking for food. However, when it came to the White Cheek Gibbons, they spent the majority of their time on the trees, which, coincidentally, aligns with what we’ve learned in class that smaller primates tend to spend more time on trees while the bigger primates spend more time on the ground. As for physical differences, the most prominent difference between the two species is their body size—the small size of the Gibbons allows for quick and swift movements on the tree, while the bigger size of the Chimpanzees limits their ability to move quickly and at ease on the tree and the ground, which explains why they spend so much time sitting and eating food instead of constantly swinging from branch to branch. When it comes to social activity, however, the Gibbons engaged in a great deal of social activity in the form of grooming one another. As for the Chimpanzees, they stayed near each other at all times, but didn’t necessarily interact with each other as much as the Gibbons
First and foremost, the use of non-human primates does not span all areas of research. The primary use of non-human primates is for complex diseases and testing of pharmaceutical drugs. Non-human primates comprise only 0.30% of all animals being used in research and all institutions using non-human primates have at least one committee if not more than one overseeing the use of these animals. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is the most prominent and is present at every institution that conducts non-human primate research. The IACUC accepts proposals for research that is to take place at an institution and ensures a rigorous review process for the proposal prior to approval. If the proposal seeks to perform
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Should policies on chimpanzee use in biomedical research be revised, if at all? In the past decades, thousands of chimpanzees have been tested on in order to benefit humankind. Chimpanzees have been useful in developing medical research as they are the closest relatives of humans and have been subject to testing due to the belief that humans should not be tested on. Whereas others would argue against the genetic similarities between the two species as well as the cruel conditions of testing on primates. Therefore, chimpanzee testing must be regulated…
Animal experimentation can help out scientists to develop new life-saving treatments or drugs for humans. The biggest enemy for humans is a new epidemic disease because it can be spread widely in a short period of time and the scientists may not have enough information to create a vaccination instantly. Such as polio, it killed a lot of people in the early twenty centuries in the United States. When polio first appeared in United States, people were helpless and they were suffering from the virus because they did not have any instant medication or vaccination to help them. Meanwhile, scientists were using animal experimentation to create the vaccine. They examined their vaccine on the monkeys. As a result, they created an...