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Keynote Address: Inroads to Animal Conservation
Keynote Address: Inroads to Animal Conservation
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" Louis Leakey believed that he could learn more about the probable behavior of our earliest Stone Age ancestors from a study of the chimpanzees in the wild. He argued that behavior common to modern chimpanzees and humans was probably also present in a common ancestor millions of years ago.
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Friendly physical contact in chimpanzee society maintains friendships and improves bad relationships. Males will spend long hours peacefully grooming each other, but if two chimpanzees do not like each other, they will not groom.
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Many of the big forest trees have a pattern of fruiting every second year. But sometimes trees fail to fruit and then the chimpanzees lose weight apparently due to decreased food supply.
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It was these observations, made in 1960 because that prompted the National Geographic Society to start funding research, at that time it was thought that only humans used and made tools. Females may "fish" for termites for up to five hours to consume the protein and lipid rich termites.
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Occasionally adult males will kill and partially eat the infant of a female of a neighboring social group. At Gombe, one mother infant pair during a 4-year period, were seen to kill and eat five newborn infants of females of their own group.
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This local pride may be why Gombe does not traditionally have poaching, while the primary threat to primates in other parts of Africa is the bush meat trade, the commercial hunting of wild animals for food. CONCLUSIONS Many chimpanzees end up in medical research laboratories because they are our closest living relatives, because their bodies are more like ours than that of any other living creature, and because they can be infected with diseases otherwise unique to us, like AIDS and hepatitis.
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