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ESOL32QUESTIONS ONAPE GENIUS
As you watch the program, fill in the blanks. You will have time to collaborate with classmates once the program is over. Remember that spelling counts, so pay attention to detail. (2 points for each blank)
In the forests of Africa (1) ______are doing things no one has seen them do before. They are making (2) ______and hunting. The great apes – chimpanzees, (3) ______, gorillas, and (4) ______-- seem so much like us humans that it’s hard not to feel a deep (5) ______.
At Fongoli, Senegal, (6) ______Jill Pruetz and (7) ______
Andrew Whiten are getting an extraordinary glimpse of chimp (8) ______.
One by one (9) ______and emotions that we once thought were only human are being found in (10) ______.
The laboratory studies are showing us their (11) ______powers.
The chimps use (12) ______as a tool to get a snack.
In Senegal the chimps love to eat (13) ______babies. A chimp breaks off a (14) ______to make a spear to catch a bush baby. The chimps take a planned series of distinct steps in a premeditated (15) ______.
The female chimp bites the end of the spear to (16) ______it. Generating ideas and sharing technologies is one definition of (17) ______.
Rebecca Saxe of MIT says that copying another’s actions is an incredibly
(18) ______skill.
Antoine Spiteri developed a kind of (19) ______machine to show that a chimp named (20) ______could follow a series of steps. Other chimp observers are able to operate the machine to get the grape.
In 1960 Jane Goodall observed that chimps’ (21) ______seem much like ours, especially the tenacious (22) ______between mother and baby.
It seems as though the mother is (23) ______when her baby dies. Goodall was the first to report apes’ making and using tools to get (24) ______.
Some apes used a big stick like a shovel to open the (25)______, and then they used another stick to pull up the termites. Goodall discovered that chimps are (26) ______.
At a research institute in Japan, no chimps communicated to (27) ______
their pulling to get the food under the stones. Ultimately the chimps learned to ask for a (28) ______hand.
A chimp doesn’t knock down the platform when the (29) ______
is the one responsible for moving the food.
If a chimp cooperates with another, he must be a (30) ______.
(31) ______are the most social of the great apes. They are more
(32) ______than chimps are. At KyotoUniversity Tetsuro Matsuzawa
found that chimps can develop an astonishing facility for (33) ______. A chimp named (34) ______learned to touch numbers in (35) ______order.
In the U.S. a bonobo named Kanzi picked up (36) ______without being taught. Kanzi’s (37) ______includes 3,000 spoken English words.
Apes have emotional issues, and they’re (38) ______.
In the M&M experiment, chimps never overcame their (39) ______urges.
In an experiment with kids, the longer children resisted (40) ______,
the higher their (41) ______scores were later. The differences between humans are (42) ______than the differences between humans and apes.
Outside of the lab, chimps don’t seem to use (43) ______.
Even skeptics agree that Kanzi understands more (44) ______than any other nonhuman animal.
By the age of (45) ______, most children are accomplished (46) ______
readers.
One study shows that chimps will (47) ______the needless steps to get a treat. The children, however, will imitate (48) ______.
While apes can copy, they can’t (49) ______each other.
A penchant for (50) ______appears even in small children.
The (51) ______is the core skill that makes teaching possible.
Apes also lack the (52) ______to cheer each other on.