Professor Robert Wyman: Yes, so the front and center story in The Times is–let me get my pointer. Student: The girls who had been splashed with acid by the Taliban on the way to school. Professor Robert Wyman: How many of you saw The New York Times yesterday morning? What did you see? Global Problems of Population Growth MCDB 150 - Lecture 2 - Sex and Violence Among the ApesĬhapter 1. The chimpanzee solution is to allow all males some, though very unequal, reproductive possibility. If the alpha male monopolized all reproductive potential, then evolution would push non-dominant males to either fight continually for dominance or to leave the group and find females elsewhere. Competition for the scarce resource, eggs, leads to male-male violence and male coercion of females. To fend off attack from other groups, males must remain in groups and that requires males to compete for mating opportunities within the community. This inter-group violence can help explain intra-group violence. Chimpanzees also engage in purposeful raids to kill members of other chimpanzee groups. Males control females by physical violence and intimidation. High-ranking males have much greater sexual access to females in estrus. Lawyers for Nash filed papers this week accusing state officials of failing to seize the animal before the mauling despite a warning that it was dangerous.Ĭlaire Jones, spokeswoman for the Jane Goodall Institute, said in an email that Goodall would have no comment “out of respect for the young man and his family.Lecture 2 - Sex and Violence Among the Apes OverviewĬhimpanzee males compete for position in a dominance hierarchy status often depends on support from other members, including females, of the group. The woman was blinded and has had a face transplant. In the United States, a Connecticut woman, Charla Nash, was attacked in 2009 by a friend’s chimpanzee that ripped off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being killed by police. Before arriving, he had been treated like a son by his owners, who dressed him in clothes, shaved his body and taught him to eat at a table using cutlery, the website said. The other, named Nikki, came from Liberia in 1996 and was among the first chimps at the sanctuary. RELATED: WOMAN MAULED BY CHIMP TO SUE STATE OF CONNECTICUT FOR $150MĪccording to the sanctuary’s website, one of the animals involved in the attack, a chimp named Amadeus, was orphaned in Angola and brought to South Africa in 1996, where he was kept at the Johannesburg Zoo until the sanctuary opened. Some lost their parents to poachers in countries where they are hunted for their meat or to be sold as pets, and others were held in captivity in cruel conditions. The Goodall institute opened the Chimpanzee Eden sanctuary in 2006 as a haven for chimpanzees, which are not native to South Africa, rescued from elsewhere in Africa.
People who raise them from infancy often end up trying to place them in zoos when they become aggressive adolescents. Ross has worked to raise awareness, but says many chimpanzees are still bred and sold as pets in the United States. They are so unbelievably fast, strong, and they’re always looking for an opportunity.” “And you can never relax with these chimps. ‘Cozy may hit people in the head with rocks but it’s not his fault’ Oberle wrote on the siteĮven researchers who understand their power, “sometimes just relax a little bit,” Ross said. Brutal: Stacey Johns (right) a friend of Oberle’s on Facebook, was hit in the head by a rock launched by Cozy (left).
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