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A 4 page exploration of the question of whether apes and humans share features of cultural behavior.
The author of this paper provides evidence that they do. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPapeLng.rtf
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The contention can be presented that apes share features of cultural behaviors, cultural behaviors such as language skills and tool making behavior, with humans. Researchers
have demonstrated time and time again, in fact, that not only can apes make and use simple tools, they can learn to communicate with humans. Apes in the wild,
of course, behave in accordance with the demands of their environment. They fashion and utilize tools that aid them in that environment and they communicate with one another on
a level that is sufficient to allow them to collectively exist. In the lab, however, apes are presented with environmental factors that are significantly different than what they encounter
in the wild. Interestingly, they respond to those factors in a way that demonstrates that they are capable of higher thought and advanced communication.
Observations on wild apes have recorded numerous instances when apes used sticks to procure food or to satisfy their other needs. They not only select the best
sticks for the job, they manipulate those sticks with their mouths and their hands to perform better in those jobs. Ant sticks are the primary example of such primitive
tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to crawl aboard so that they can be more easily consumed. It seems, however, that
such tool utilization is not an innate ability but rather one that is taught by an apes relatives and associates. The degree and specifics of tool utilization varies by
colony. An apes specific manner of communication also varies by colony, an interesting fact when we turn our attention to the laboratory where, like in differing colonies, apes are
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