AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the job of male chimpanzees?
A
Take care of the young, find food, keep families together
B
make tools, fish, make friends
C
make nests, hunt, fish
D
protect, hunt, and find food
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Male chimpanzees have paternal recognition and invest in their offspring, not just on future mating. The researchers also found males spend time grooming and caring for their offspring.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like humans, chimpanzees hunt other animals and even go to war with other chimp groups. Today, researchers study how chimpanzees cooperate with each other during hunting and other activities. Humans and chimpanzees both hunt animals for meat. Meat provides important nutrients for chimps that are rare in plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Across populations, hunting is a predominately male activity. Chimpanzees hunt a variety of vertebrate prey, but there is a common focus on medium-sized mammals, particularly primates, and especially colobus monkeys.

Detailed explanation-4: -The hunting of monkeys is a predominately male activity. Among the chimpanzees of the Ngogo (Kibale) community, adult or adolescent males made 98.8 % of all kills recorded between 1995 and 2000 (Watts and Mitani 2002).

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