Relationship Between Humans And Primates

What makes a primate a primate? A primate is defined by its many incredible features. A primate is a mammal that has certain characteristics such as: flexible fingers and toes, opposable thumbs, flatter face than other mammals, eyes that face forward and spaced close together, large and complex cerebrum, and social animals. What makes a primate a primate is its characteristics. Some of the physical features primates are identified by is their teeth, snouts, eyes, ears, arms, legs, fingers, and toes. Human evolution is a big part of humans being primates, and having similar features and characteristics make humans to be considered to be a primate, but both humans and non-humans have differences.

In the article, “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and ´Dignity´ to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?¨, written by Ed Yong, who explains the moral but unclear delma of granting Great Apes rights. Extending from Spain to the U.S., the Great Ape Project (GAP) fights for these basic sets of moral and legal rights for apes. The problem is that apes, although genetically similar to humans are still viewed as simple animals. Which makes the ability to give these non-human animals, human like rights unnecessary as it would to give rights to dogs or rats. The U.S. has also passes the Great Ape Protection Act, which stop any harmful experience to apes. Consequently also stopping any further understanding of underlying biological mechanisms,

Humans and chimpanzees; when people hear these two words they often think about two different species, but these living creatures have a lot more in common than the average person would anticipate. Evolution is a topic that has been contemplated and studied by scientists, such as Charles Darwin, who stated “Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals,”1 for many years. Through scientific research it is proven that Humans and chimpanzees, two not similar creatures have a lot more in common than expected.

For this assignment, I have decided to design an enclosure about the primate, Mandrill. I will, in words, describe an enclosure that will prevent these nonhuman primates from not being suited to their natural habitat needs. Throughout this assignment, I will design my very own version of a perfect enclosure that secures these primates by critically thinking of any psychological or physical problems that can occur. What also will need to partake is considering the perspective of the nonhuman primates, the zookeepers, and the visitors as well. Designing an enclosure has to be precise and detailed. I will do the best I can to be as detailed as I can be when designing this enclosure.

According to National Geographic, scientists have sequenced the genome factor of the chimpanzee and found that humans are 98.5% similar to the ape species. The chimpanzee is our closest relative in the animal kingdom; however, some people are not aware of our resembling traits with chimpanzees. Jane Goodall’s, In the Shadow of Man, describes some similar traits humans and chimpanzees have such as their facial expressions and emotions, use of tools, and diet.

Orangutans (Figure 3) are our first cousins since they share 97 percent of our genetic material. Contrary to other apes, orangutans are semi solitary which is unique in its social organization (3). Adult males which are the most solitary, and they associate with only their current, former, and potential consorts. For the semi-solitary orangutans, the only playmate is its mother. Even female adults are more social than male ones, rarely they groom, touch, hold hands, chase, or fight. On rare occasions, female adults may groom; however, it lasts only few seconds. Sometimes, female adults meet and travel with one another to express the close relationship. The long call by a male orangutan expresses an alert to others about his presence. Usually, other orangutans only react if the call is close by or aggressive towards them. Male orangutan can use vocalization to express that he is angry and frustrated, and that call signals a threat to another male (3). Female orangutans also produce vocalization when they get upset by the presence of another male.

All primates have a common ancestor, from millions of years ago. Go further back, and you will find a common ancestor for all mammals. Then a common ancestor for all vertebrates, then animals, then all life on earth. How closely two organisms are related can be deduced by looking for homologous structures, structures that look similar and have a similar function. This proves that the organisms descended from a common ancestor. Station 1 contained multiple vertebrate skeletons. They all had homologous structures, including a vertebral column and a rib cage. This shows that all vertebrates are related and come from a common ancestor with a

Evolution is the process of change of living organisms over a long period of time due to difference of environment or circumstances that was not prevalent before. These evolutionary mutations occur due to things such as a change of environment where what may have been shallow water has gradually gotten deeper and thus the organisms that inhabited that land had to change in order to remain living in that area without risk. This also relates to things such as storms that may alter the habitat of the previous land where what something may have eaten has changed and the organism was altered to match that environment. This then has an affect on the history of human evolution, humans and apes relate to a similar origin and were very similar many years ago and this is known as primate phylogeny. This Extended research task will go in depth with the origins of man and the relation between man and apes through primate

In every culture known to human there are different forms of musical expression. Although nonhuman primates can’t produce music, they have very similar auditory structures, perception and behavioral responses. Humans say that music has an effect on social arousal and mood, similarly chimpanzees show an increase in social behavior and a decrease in agonism when music is played to them. Evidence shows that human and nonhuman primates have an ability to distinguish music properties such as the types of rhythmic or melodic organization. Although primates exhibit and ability to distinguish between rhythmic structures and show a preference for slower tempos, it is unknown if they have a preference for rhythmic patterns. Humans and Chimpanzees prefer consonant music over dissonant music.

Roet continues to explore the nature of our close relatives, the monkeys, gorillas and apes. This is done throughout her series of artworks consist of, three dimensional pieces, drawings on paper and photography artworks. ‘When I laugh, He laughs with me.’ advocates the close controversial connection between primates and humans. Roet explores the biological, cultural and visual parallels between humans and apes comprising the ‘physicality’ of romance. Using the sources of major international zoos and field studies of apes, Roet challenges the biological theories of humans evolving during the course of life and explores the bond between other primates.

As innumerable of people thought that the DNA between humans and chimpanzees were close, it is theoretically different. The intelligence of a human and a chimpanzee is high in scoring. The physical appearance is different between humans and chimpanzees, but yet they are not that different in appearance. In the physical appearance, we will go over the head and the body. As close as human’s and chimpanzee’s DNA are, we have many differences, including intelligence, and the physical features.

In addition, the shape of the scapula looks similar to the scapulae of both juvenile and adult gorillas (Alemseged 299). In contrast to modern humans at the same age they have a broader infraspinous fossa and a more laterally facing glenoid fossa with a correspondingly horizontal spine orientation (Alemseged 299).

When connecting the bones of the human and chimpanzee I was able spot out a few differences and similarities as well. My first impression when looking at these two bone structures side by side was that the human looks like a bigger and more structured form of the chimpanzee’s bone structure. I can say that they look very similar to each other, each bone is almost identical with slight tweaks, and for example the forearm on the human is just slightly shorter than the chimpanzee’s. The biggest difference that stood out to me was probably the size of their heads because it shows that throughout time we adapted and our brains probably increased in size to help our surviving capabilities. With scientist saying that we evolved from chimpanzees, I

two species are so similar. As human populations grow, so does the risk of disease transmission between humans and chimpanzees. On 12 June 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will classify all chimpanzees, both wild and captive, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Before this ruling, only wild chimpanzees were listed as endangered, while captive chimpanzees were listed as threatened under the act. The final rule was published in the Federal Register of 16 June 2015, and came into effect 90 days after publication on September 14, 2015. Just like the Bengal Tiger, worldwildlife.org is trying their best to help out the Chimpanzees. They stated, “WWF establishes, strengthens, and manages protected areas in Central

Human origins show that they have close relations with chimpanzees. With sharing common ancestors it shows closely to nighty-nine percent genetically identical to chimpanzees. The genome of humans has made little changes over the years of the divergent path of chimps and human origins. Although changes occurred it didn’t alter or have great effect towards human make up. While chimpanzees and human are closely related; things such brain arrangement, size, and shape set theses to species apart.