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Activity 2: The World of the Great Apes
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Compare your town’s population density to that of the various great apes. How would your life be different if your
population density was the same as theirs?
What are the closest towns or cities to each of the apes’ habitats? What impact do you think it has if the apes are
living close to, or even sharing, their habitat with humans?
What features of the apes’ bodies, or behavior adaptations, help them in their habitat? Compare this to how the
human body is adapted for our lifestyles.
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the approximate area in square kilometers of each species’ territory.
Then, working with your group, locate the lesoto
population figures for the species you were assigned to research at
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/great_apes/.
Divide the population by the area to find the
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population density (individuals per square kilometer.) Then go online to find
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Do
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species
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interact
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overlapping
habitat?
Why
or
why
not?
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