Primate Behavior: Chimpanzees

Primate Behavior : Chimpanzees

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Primate Behavior : Chimpanzees

Million years ago , it is believed that the chimpanzees , unable to construct technology that makes migration possible , have remained marooned for more than five million years in a small corner of Africa The popular assumption of a closeness between human and chimpanzee intelligence is that the fact that the brain of the chimpanzee has remained at about 500 cc while that of the human has advanced to about 1300 cc . Chimpanzee as believed is our closest relative , yet the human brain is more

than two and a half time larger than that of a chimpanzee a human intelligence is a thing part

The wild chimpanzee teaches it 's young very little . But does the young chimpanzee suffer ? No . For everything the parent does the young chimpanzee learns to do itself , without parental training . Even the most complex acts of the adult chimpanzee -nut cracking , termite fishing water sponging - do not depend on parental assistance . A chimpanzee mother allows her infant to eat the nuts she has cracked she tolerates her infant as it leans heavily on her while she is busy doing her task but she never turns away from her own successful nut cracking to watch the efforts of her infant . Although the chimpanzee mother does not assist her infant by acting as a watchful pedagogue , the manner of motivation is taken place by the repeating observation of her infant In other words , by watching its mother , the infant get hooked ' on...