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    longer neck. Goliath Beetle The world's largest and heaviest beetle, the Goliath Beetle is found in tropical Africa. It can reach a length of 5 inches and weigh up to ¼ lb. its a big as your hand. Gorillas The Gorilla is the largest of the living primates, male gorillas weigh up to 200kg, yet are shy and retiring vegetarians. Lions Lions are unique in that they are the only cats to live in groups (prides). They are the largest member of the cat family and the largest of all the African carnivores

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    of apes and their relationship to humans would not be the same today had it not been for the valiant efforts put forth by these firsts few. Jane Goodall is the first woman out of three, known as the Trimates, to be sent by Louis Leakey, to study primates in their natural habitat. During her expedition, Goodall studied chimpanzees. She was the first person in history to ever to record the way chimpanzees act in their natural habitat. She observed them eating animals they hunted, eating other monkeys

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    in humans during the evolutionary period some million years ago. Compared to the ape, human beings can hold, carry, pick up, throw, touch and walk long distances using little energy. Human beings are also unique by the fact that they are the only primates that have mostly naked skin. Some mammals like the whale, elephant and rhinos compete with human beings. Humans got this feature

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    Their back is orange-yellow, and their belly is grey or white. The Calabar Angwantibo has a white strip that goes from the tip of their nose to their forehead. Many people think they are beautiful. The Calabar Angwantibo is the world's only primate that has a third eyelid. They will weigh 9.38 to 16.4 ounces. They like to live in the lower part of the trees. During the day, the Calabar Angwantibo likes to sleep in tree branches. They will hunt for food at night. The male Calabar Angwantibo

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    When it comes to fulfilling needs, human and animal might be almost similar in the lowest levels of the pyramid which is made up of the most basic need such as making shelter, earning food or protecting the group against the enemy or free-riders. However as people progress up the pyramid, needs become increasingly psychological and social. For instance, the need for friendship, belonging, and love become important and therefore people strive to cooperate to fulfill these needs. Since the growth

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    Harry Harlow Harry Frederick Harlow was probably best known for his experimentations on monkeys to discover the effect of maternal-separation, what exactly were the dependency needs on a living being, and experiments in social isolation for the subject. His research showed the rest of society the importance of companionship and caregiving to social as well as cognitive development. Speculators believe that part of the reason Harlow was so obsessed with these kinds of studies was because he didn’t

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    mice, and birds constitute an estimated 90-95% of animals in laboratories and are excluded from this act. Cold-blooded animals and farm animals raised for food are also excluded. The Animal Welfare Act covers dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees and monkeys, guinea

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    There is strong evidence and beliefs that indicated the Neanderthal group in Europe and Western Asia were the first hominids to bury their dead. Additionally, anthropologist had found that Neanderthals of the time, were located their buried bodies that were accompanied with meat animal bones, flower and object tools like stone that were made of percussion flaking. The Neanderthal adorned the grave with flowers, something we still do in the modern world and this represents the beauty of the Paradise

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    Compare Apes To Humans

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    organism’s genome in the nucleus of a cell. It’s full of genes, the building blocks of our whole body, and what it will grow up to look like. It also contains molecular codes that regulate the output of genes. Humans belong in the group known as primates, and we are also classified with great apes. The DNA confirms that our closest living relatives are chimps and bonobos, which we also have close biological kinship with. DNA also shows that our

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    Where did humans originate? The only surviving species in the genus named Homo are the human beings, indeed human are living species in the whole hominid family and the closest living relatives of human being are the chimpanzees. These are mot hominids, however they belongs to alternative family, named as pongids or great apes. One of the last mutual ancestor of human beings and chimpanzees perhaps lived about 5 million years ago. One of the unique creature on the planet earth are humans although

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