Anth, 16 Jan 2002

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primate loose ends:

• from CP p 18 (Film Review: People of the Forest)
  
  
  
  • Gombe Stream Reserve: Lake Tanganyika , near Congo border
    
  • Jane Goodall: unexperienced, no anth training, no expectations
    
  • went in with no formal training, no degree
    
  • Louis Leakey (sp?), funded project, selected her
    
  • picked a woman for patience and observation
    
  • now has earned Doctorate in Anth
    
  • thesis was very anthropomorphic, use personal pronouns
    
  • entering 4th decade of observation (1960 - )
    
  • dramatis personae:
    
    
    
    • Flo (domme == dominant female)
      
    • Flo's daughter Fifi
      
    • Flo's older sons Fabena and Figan
      
    • Flo's young son Flint
      
    • Olly Longface: throat swollen from goiter - severe thyroid condition (iodine deficency (sp?) )
      
    • Gilka, Olly's daughter
      
    • Baldy Macgregor
    
    
  
  
  • recently distracted by starting tourist trade, seeding small businesses
    
  • lessen ecomomic needs that were driving poaching of chimps
    
  • video clip:
    
    
    
    • Fifi has been separated from Flo and Flint
    
    
    • preschool fighting
    
    
    • preschooler dragged apart
      
    • Baldy has polio (zoonosesis)
      
    • 1/4 of chimp community was affected by the disease
      
    • Olly's baby died, and she carried the corpse in denial for weeks(?)
      
    • Faben lost the use of an arm, fored into bipedalism (sp?) for life
      
    • (grooming as social glue of chimp community)
      
    • Fifi is entering estrus
      
    • Flint, at 5, still trying to nurse, but milk is drying up
      
    • Flint throws a tantrum
      
    • Later on Fifi(?) gives birth, making Flint no longer the baby
      
    • sucking and grasping
      
    • Flint tries to suckle again, throws another tantrum
      
    • Flo (in her 40s) moves away, family follows
      
    • A few weeks later ...
      
    • Fifi's (?) infant dies, Flint is happy again as baby
      
    • (older parents bear weaker children, as in humans)
      
    • Flint should be with a peer group, but Flo accepts him back
      
    • 2 1/2 years pass..
      
    • Flo dies (53), Flint (8 yo, still acting as baby) finds the body
      
    • family gathers near streambed site
      
    • family leaves, flint stays in tree above stream for 3 weeks before dying
      
    • (anthropomorphism vs. chimp emotions)
      
  
  
  
  


• white tufts on rear darken with age, as does facial hair


• mature males pack and hunt or forage during the day


• dominant female?:
  
  
  
  • determined by birth
    
  • enhanced by aggressiveness
    
  • alliances: food and grooming favours traded for influence
    

opposable big toe == ape, use toe in opposition like thumb