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
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.
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.
...eportedly the chimpanzee became an endangered species in 2002. Vital funds for zoo affiliated research and field work should be found elsewhere, because fooling around with another's life – human or animal – is not ours to manipulate.
April 3, 1934 a leader was born. A leader by the name of Jane Goodall, an extremely well rounded, primatologist of our time. Although this may seemed distant to many, it was actually her calling. At the age of one, Goodall received a stuffed chimpanzee that her father Herbert Goodall gave to her. She named the chimpanzee Jubilee, which she still keeps with her in her home in England. That was the beginning of her curious mind. She opened many eyes on the situation with chimpanzees being harmed in the jungles and discovered that they are just like “us” humans.
stomachs to get nutrients out of leaves. Leaves are difficult to digest, so therefore, the langurs spend most of their time sleeping in order to properly digest them. They leaves they eat ferment inside them as part of their natural digestion, which releases bubbles of gas and causes them to burp!
Chimpanzees are part of the non-human primate group. Though we share a common ancestor, evolution has pushed us in different directions. However this common ancestor causes humans to be curious about these creatures. As discussed in Jane Goodall’s video Among the Wild Chimpanzees we were once considered to be human because of our use of tools but once we observed these non-human primates using tools, this perception was changed forever. The question now at hand is if having the chimpanzees that we study in captivity makes a difference between studying wild chimps. These interesting creatures can be found naturally in the rainforests of Africa.
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.
The question of whether or not animal testing is morally right or wrong has been debated for years, with each side presenting valid arguments. But when it comes down to morals and common compassion, animal testing that involves inflicting pain is always wrong. Cruelty supporters argue that no matter the pain, the 98.8 percent similarity between chimps and humans genes is too medically useful to be wasted. Most experiments scientists perform on chimps involve their brains, which have the same gene regions as humans. This similarities of the
These experiments that were conducted on the monkeys have a high chance of encouraging other countries to take the same actions and produce their own experimentation. If other countries were to be suspicious of the actions that the scientists have taken they too might undergo certain testing. Take Russia as an example. They are another country, other than the Unites States, that have their hands on the smallpox virus. They too can begin experimenting on animals if they believe this virus can be a threat. Some felt, “the biggest danger of Jahrling’s research was that it would look suspicious to other countries and would encourage them to do their own experimentation. We would start an arms race over small pox.” (211). Preston claimed that, this
Jane Goodall has mentioned that the chimps are like children in many ways. Testing the chimps takes away the right for them to live life how it's meant to be as a chimp.
Great Apes are at the brink of extinction due to deforestation, hunting, and bushmeat trade. Our closest cousins are now viewed as economic commodities rather than valuable agents to the environment and humanity. In order to explore this issue, there must be an examinitation of why primate populations are dwindling, if these populations can replenish themselves, and what measures the international community is taking to alleviate the problem.
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 is contentious issue in today’s society that, whether it continue or should stop. Many animals such as monkey undergo painful suffering or even death as a result of scientific research for the sake of humans’ health. Among the animals monkeys are the main victims of the scientists’ experiments because of their human-like characteristics and physical process to humans. Monkeys’ similarities allow the scientists to test effectiveness of the new discovered drugs, food additives, and chemical and even cosmetics products. Although, such medical experimentations had helped scientists to produce vaccines, and medicines that are necessary for elimination of some deceases, but the test had negative medical effect on monkeys.
According to scientists, chimpanzees are our great ancestors. Their way of life at first was a slight different than ours. When humans today walk on two feet, chimpanzees back at the time walked on 4 legs. Chimpanzees did their regular routine of finding food when they need it, finding shelter when needed. All of that changed when a natural disaster occurred on the face of the earth. Before the disaster, chimpanzees had nothing to fear. Life looked normal. Once the disaster hit, things took a turn for the worse. All the food that was available to chimpanzees in the reach of their hands were gone. Food was scarce on the ground. After a couple of hundreds of years, food and the basic necessities for living were at a much more higher reach of the chimpanzees. This meant that instead of chimpanzees walking on four legs, they had to walk on two. The other two body parts they used as legs would soon be turned into...
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...