meat eating

Question 1

who studied chimps eating meat

Answer 1

jane goodall

craig b. stanford

Question 2

% that meat makes up of a diet

Answer 2

3

Question 3

stanfords observation on meat huntign

Answer 3

• most hunts are social/cooperative
• hunting is seasonal (hunting crazes)
• hunting is a polsitical tool for fominance and group membership

Question 4

debate on chimp hunting rols

Answer 4

are they smart enough to have a mentally coherent goals/switch goals?

Question 5

what does cooperative hunting demonstrate

Answer 5

ability to be aware of another persons actions and roles (like in lion, hyenes); a sign of social intelligence and ‘mind readning’

in tai national aprk; chimps take role of ‘driver’ or ‘ambusher’ switching

Question 6

why do social relationships need a ‘keen mind’

Answer 6

1. sharere must have sharp memeory to remember networks

2. sharing key resource results in escalation of brain size/cognitive advances/fool

Question 7

standfords hypothesis

Answer 7

hunting drives social intelligence

Question 8

examples of other primates that eat meat

Answer 8

capuchins eqat squireels

baboons eat hare/antelopes

Question 9

how much meat has been detected in chimsp

Answer 9

3% but

35 diffeent vertebrate sepcies such as the , pigs, antelopes and red colobus (80%)

Question 10

chimp spciety

Answer 10

fission fussion poligytny
temporary subgroundings
parties; vary in size according to abundance/distrubtion of food and estrous females

Question 11

Hunts in chimp society

Answer 11

are mainly social
more cooperation= greater succes rates
tends to be seasonal
dont obtain food from scavening= implies hunting has a social role

Question 12

hunting crazes= stanford finds…

Answer 12

that the size of chimp foraging parties relates to the hunting frequency/success rate

hunting binges occur= when fmale sexual swellings are largest

Question 13

why do chimps hunt

Answer 13

1. nutrition

2. sociality

Question 14

Geza Teleki Hypothesis on hunting

Answer 14

it is a strong social basis:

1. males can show off

Question 15

Wrangham conclusion on hunting

Answer 15

1. its nutristionally based

Question 16

Toshisada Nishida findings

Answer 16

in mahale mountains= meat a political tool to witheld rivals and give to allies (might trade sex for food infemales_

Question 17

EARLIST hominins

Answer 17

• most were eating meat opportunistically (scavenging)
• females also involved in scaveninging
  = females are active startegists that male try to gain favour from
• meat became a way to control women (as its a highl valued food resource); sexual division of lavour allowed men to take patricarchical control/manipulate females

Question 18

why is hunting not linked to neocortex ratio

Answer 18

as other mammals (eagles, lions) also have social hunting= analagous

but COOPERATIVE hunting is.

Question 19

how is hunting in chimps political

Answer 19

• chimps will hunt even when other food (palm nuts) are available due to social function
• males use meat to secure political alliances
• attract estrous females
• show ‘off’ dominance
• kinship strengthen/support

Question 20

why do bonobos hunt less than chimps

Answer 20

• female dominance= they control the meat
  = hence dont recieve nutristional benefits that elimiantes incentive
• are les aggresive hunters (different field conditions as well) and sexual equality
• chimps= hierarchical= adult males dominant= hence social incentive to figure out how to climb up dominance hierarchy by meat sharing/hunting
  = meat is partrical!

Question 21

De Waal showed

Answer 21

captive chimps share food for grooming