Assignment

Anthropology about "The Primates" questions.

1. Why do anthropologists study nonhuman primates?

2. Based on what you saw in the film concerning tool use, would you say that nonhuman primates have "culture"? Why or why not?

3. What did you think of the observation that male chimps are not as good at termite fishing as the females? What does this mean in terms of the debate in anthropology about whether chimps have some kind of cultural aptitudes?

4. What did you think of the inanimate versus animate chimp "world view" experiment in the film?

5. What did you learn about nonhuman primates from the documentary?