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What did Jane Goodall not like about chimps?
Apparently there's something about chimps that she "hated". What was it?
It's not actually a HW question, but a contest one. Help? Please?
3 Answers
- Conqueror Worm ©Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Their aggression
In contrast to the peaceful and affectionate behaviors she observed, Goodall also found an aggressive side of chimp nature at Gombe Stream. She discovered that chimps will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys.[13] Goodall watched a hunting group isolate a colobus monkey high in a tree, block all possible exits, then one chimpanzee climbed up and captured and killed the colobus.[16] The others then each took parts of the carcass, sharing with other members of the troop in response to begging behaviours.[16] The chimps at Gombe kill and eat as much as one-third of the colobus population in the park each year.[13] This alone was a major scientific find which challenged previous conceptions of chimp diet and behavior.
But perhaps more startling, and disturbing, was the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops. Goodall observed dominant females deliberately killing the young of other females in the troop in order to maintain their dominance,[13] sometimes going as far as cannibalism.[14] She says of this revelation, "During the first ten years of the study I had believed […] that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings. […] Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal—that they, like us, had a darker side to their nature."[14] These findings revolutionized contemporary knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour, and were further evidence of the social similarities between humans and chimpanzees, albeit in a much darker manner.
- ChrisLv 79 years ago
I guess, :- agression, violence and canabilism. See www.pbs.org/wnet/.../jane-goodalls-wild-chimpanzees/.../1908 - Cached
hope that helps
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