Assignment 7 - Chapter 6/7 Last Great Ape

The Last Great Ape - Bonobo

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1. What location is the only home to the bonobos?

2. What are the names of the two camps where bonobo research occurs?

3. Three researchers are shown in the film, name two.

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4. Humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos. When did our ancestor split from the chimp-bonobo ancestry? 

5. When did the chimpanzee and the bonobo split from each other as distinctive species?

6. Who runs bonobo troops? Who runs chimpanzee troops?

7. What is the leading hypothesis on bonobo hierarchy?(found in film 13:54-17:49 & 24:00 – 26:30)

8. What does it mean when it is said that bonobos use sex as an affiliative behavior?

9. How is it different from the chimpanzee?

10. What happens when two separate troops of chimpanzees meet in the rain forest?

11. What happens when two separate troops of bonobos meet in the rain forest?

12. What is the strategy used by male chimpanzees to secure reproduction with females?

Name five characteristics that are different between chimpanzees and bonobos

                                Bonobo                                                                                                Chimpanzee

Example:             thinner stature                                                                 thicker stature

                                Lives in only 1 place                                                         Lives all over Africa

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18. Recognized in 1950’s as a separate species, why has there been so little bonobo research accomplished?

19. At the end of the film, one primatologist has temporarily suspended his bonobo research in order to engage in what activity?