The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior

The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior

1. Julius, Pongo pygmaeus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Lock and key test 2. Skirrl, Pithecus irus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Hammer and nail test Other activities 3. Sobke, Pithecus rhesus: Box stacking experiment Draw-in experiment Box and pole experiment Other activities Two strong interests come to expression in this report: the one in the study of the adaptive or ideational behavior of the monkeys and the apes; and the other in adequate and permanent provision for the thorough study of all aspects of the lives of these animals. The values of these interests and of the tasks which they have led me to undertake are so widely recognized by biologists that I need not pause to justify or define them. I shall, instead, attempt to make a contribution of fact on the score of each interest. While recognizing that the task of prospecting for an anthropoid or primate station may in its outcome prove incomparably more important for the biological and sociological sciences and for human welfare than my experimental study of ideational behavior, I give the latter first place in this report, reserving for the concluding section an account of the situation regarding our knowledge of the monkeys, apes, and other primates, and a description of a plan and program for the thorough-going and long continued study of these organisms in a permanent station or research institute. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 10843
Author: Yerkes, Robert Mearns
Release Date: Jan 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English