Persuasive Essay On Chimpanzees

In the book, ‘Through a Window: My Thirty Years With The Chimpanzees of Gombe,’ written by Jane Goodall, explains the lives of chimpanzees. There are a lot of similarities and some differences between chimps and human lives in terms of social behavior, intellectual ability and their emotional stages as seen from different stages of their lives in the natural setting.

With the extinction of many animals and the changing environment due to human activities, conservation methods should be put into action to save the earth and its residents. With so many negative things happening to the environment it is possible that the earth and its resources could run out in the next few generations. One species, the mountain gorillas, contribute greatly to the well being of the earth and needs to be saved. Being the destroyers of the earth, I believe that it our duty to find a way repent for our negligence to our neighbors and environment.

Back in 2012, my great-grandmother died 4 days after she was released from the hospital. We automatically blamed the hospital for her passing. When a loved one dies, sometimes the only way to cope is to place blame on someone. We feel like someone must be held responsible for the tragedy. In “Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, the White’s son, Herbert meets a horrific demise. The family uses a monkey’s paw given by a family friend to wish for 200 pounds. Coincidentally, Herbert dies the next day. Many people were involved in this terrible situation, but, at the end of the day, Herbert did not believe in the powers of the paw. He also pushed his father to make such a frivolous wish. Taking into consideration the wreck less actions of Herbert, I have no choice but to place the blame of Herbert’s death into his own hands.

Goodall, J. (1971). In the Shadow of Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. The author’s goal in writing this book is to discuss her experiences and what she had learned from studying wild Chimpanzees. Goodall wrote this book in order to convey her knowledge of a species of animal she loves very much, so that others may become educated and join her in protecting them. She dreamed of going to Africa to see them, and was offered a job by Dr. Lewis Leakey. Goodall wanted nothing more than a chance to help. Her experiences in surrounding herself with them have completely changed the way scientists conduct field research. Whether she intended to or not, the data she has collected has debunked myths and uncovered truths about chimpanzees, while bringing more light to human behavior.

Harlow gathered 16 rhesus monkeys, placing some with a cloth covered monkey that did not produce food, and some with a wired monkey that dispensed food. With this presence, it was found that the newborns didn’t die as they had the cloth to cuddle. It was found that the monkeys would rather cuddle the cloth covered monkey rather than the wired one which produced food, just to establish a sense of contact comfort, which was much more important for the attachment of the monkeys. Harlow also followed monkeys which had been deprived of a ‘real’ mother at birth and found the wire mother reared monkeys were dysfunctional but those with the cloth covered one didn’t develop normal social

Chimpanzees (Figure 1) are the closest living relatives to us, and they share 99 percent of our DNA (1). Chimpanzees have distinct group territoriality. Male chimpanzees “patrol” near the boundary between the two ranges, at that time they move very carefully and quietly, and they can cease to listen and observe the range of their neighbors. Patrolling individuals are likely to face cruel and violent

The beginnings of conspecific care are currently unknown; however, researchers do note that other primates, including chimpanzees, participate in altruistic care of conspecifics (Hublin, 2009). Hublin (2009) decided to compare the Neanderthal SH14 and Salé specimens to data collected on chimpanzee behavior. SH14 was an individual that did not make it to adulthood due to cranial malformation and would have required constant aid to stay alive for as long as it did. The Salé specimen was a young adult female that suffered from cranial distortion and muscular trauma (Hublin, 2009). Both specimens would have relied on relatives or peers to

The deeper I dig into animal abuse , the more I want to become a vegetarian. But it is not easy as it seems. The things that I have seen and read makes me sick to my stomach. To watch a hopeless cow, get whipped , is sickening. Watching baby Chicklets die in a big machine , brings tears to my eyes. Millions of animals every day die cruel deaths , and I no longer want to be an accomplice to the crimes. While it may be hard to retrain myself , I should and intend to just stop eating meat.

There was a chimp named Cornelius, he served a wealthy, ungrateful man. This man owned more than one chimp, but he didn’t treat them as well as he treated Cornelius. He tortured the other ones, killed their parents and their whole family in front of them. But Cornelius was special, he had a secret that only the other chimps knew about. Drake, his owner, would ask the chimps to make a sacrifice, one chimp would become his servant for the rest of their life.

Understanding if primates display grief, or what could potentially be interpreted as compassion, and how they might express it is just one of the emotional responses which can be explored. Whether or not non-human primates are capable of grief has been heavily debated, but outside of responses to infant death the response to death of primates is not highly observed. One of the most detailed descriptions of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) group’s response to an unexpected death of an adult is described by Teleki (1973) and resulted in excited and aggressive behaviours by the group members. This group was wild and based in Gombe and the responses appear to differ greatly from

animals. Though they are clever, chimps also exhibit an immense capability for violence, though one could can say the same for humans. If a chimpanzee gets in the way of a dominant male or female while they are displaying, the displaying chimpanzee will often turn and strike the offending chimpanzee multiple times with extraordinary brutality, but this lasts for no more than a few minutes at most. Dr. Goodall has also observed an occasion where an infant named Goblin was seen walking unsteadily toward a dominate male -- Mike, at the time -- who was just then beginning the pant-hoots than forewarn of a display. Astonishingly, Goblin stumbled directly onto the path of the charging Mike, and he snatched up the infant “...as though he was a branch

When chimps are nurtured they usually maintain an intimate connection with their mother and other adolescent chimps they were raised amongst (Kambiz 2007), and this goes to show that chimpanzees have intelligence that is able to recognize bonds and connections. This is amazing in itself, but it further develops because if a dominant female chimp gave birth the child would usually be identified as dominant as well( Kambiz 2007). Showing not only are chimps able to recognize maternal bonds, but are perceptive enough to identify systems of hierarchy and comradery, just shows the how close they are to humans. Jane Goodall spoke of a chimpanzee in Japan named Ayumu who took tests involving numbers and patterns, and according to Kyoto University Ayumu and her companions are able to identify patterns and numbers with accuracy similar to those with photographic memory (N.A. 2013). What does differentiate us from them though is our involvement of females into our society while chimpanzees aren’t give much control over the community, and how humans have a society has rules that are based on group behavior and cultural rules.

Chimpanzees are comparable to humans in I.Q.s. Bonobos I.Q. scores are cited as great as 80 or 90 in I.Q. s in children’s scores. Bonobos, chimpanzees, and human beings are derived from a species that existed 6 or 7 million years ago, and I strongly believe in the evolution theory. “Barbaric laboratories” such as Southwest National Primate Research Center alias Texas Biomedical Research Institute, is not an institute of science, but a place of torture and suffering for these extremely sensitive creatures. Biomedical Research Institute is infamous for killing chimps, and injecting them with diseases. Biomedical Research Institute is no

When I started to volunteer at the Animal Rescue League of Iowa I didn’t think very much of it. I needed volunteer hours and I love animals so I thought it could be fun to go out there and see what I could do to help. It was also an opportunity for me to hang out with a few friends. At that moment I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. Now I do.

Some families go vacations, some play every sport there is, some buy their kids whatever they want some, but not my family, we show, we earn what we are given. For some showing is just something you do in the summer for a 4-H or FFA project but to me it’s much more than that. To me that’s what I work all year for. That slap on the back for that Purple ribbon, the adrenaline rush from stepping out on that fresh sawdust, the intensity from driving that animal, and that amazing feeling that washes over your whole body when the judging shakes your hand and all those long nights and early mornings finally paying off. But even beyond that there is more learned in the experiences that come from showing an animal's, than how to set the animal to look its best and get a little sweaty.