Monkey in the Mirror-Film Study Guide

INTRODUCTORY ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 111

MONKEY IN THE MIRROR

The Place:
	Central Zaire	Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
	Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago	Ivory Coast
	Yerkes Primate Center, Atlanta


The Primates:
	chimpanzees	gorillas
	bonobo or pygmy chimps	baboons
	Japanese macaque


Other Names:
	June	Kanzi

Questions to think about while watching Monkey in the Mirror:

What kinds of behaviour do infant humans share with infant chimpanzees and at what ages?

What behaviour(s) make(s) us human?

What kind of social behaviours are found among most primates?

How do primates behave when their populations are stressed,
that is, when there is overpopulation?

How are bonobos more like us than other primates?

FURTHER READING:
Quiatt, Duane D. and Vernon Reynolds.
1993 Primate behaviour: information, social knowledge, and the evolution of culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. QL 737 P9 Q49 1993

Rowe, Noel
1996 The Pictorial Guide to Living Primates. East Hampton, NY: Pogonias Press. QL737, P9, R675 1996.

Smuts, Barbara B., Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Richard W. Wrangham and Thomas T. Struhsaker. (Editors)
1986 Primate Societies. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. QL737, P9, P6744.

Wrangham, Richard W., W.C. McGrew, Frans B.M. de Waal, and Paul G. Heltne. (Editors)
1994 Chimpanzee Cultures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Chicago Academy of Sciences). QL737, P96, C474

[ANTH 111]

Last updated 07/24/2001