Orangutans Lesson Plans

1. Endangered Species Lesson Plan
...rtaken in Africa and other part of the world that are native to Rhinos to ban poaching, there is also great resistance due to the high value of a rhino horn. Two Rhino horns can fetch up to $50000 dollars. Video: ? Look at their highly priced horns shaped liked a dagger ? One Horned Rhino in Africa Orangutans as an endangered species Orangutans are the largest tree-dwelling animals. They eat seed and disperse them and hence are of importance in their forest ecosystem. Also, Oranguatan with other Apes are closest genetically to human beings and hence give scientists clues to human behavior and thinking. O...

2. Mini-Lesson: What, If Anything, Is A Zebra?
...ow many living species of zebras are there?______ What are their common names? 5. The genus Equus includes zebras, ___________, ___________, and ____________ 6. What is "Cladistics"? 7. What is a clade? 8. What are "sister groups"? 9. What is OUR sister group? 10. What is a "cladogram"? 11. Why are orangutans, chimps, and gorillas (the "Great Apes") not a true genealogical unit? 12. What are "shared derived characters"? 13. What are "primitive characters"? 14. What are the clearest shared derived characters which chimps and gorillas share? 15. What does Bennett base her cladistic analysis of Equus on? 16...

3. Lesson: evolution: Pseudogene Suite - C. Bio Workbench
...NE SUITE Lesson C: EXPLORING PRIMATE PSEUDOGENES EVOLUTION WITH BIOLOGY WORKSHOP created by Mary Ball and Steve Karr Macroevolution Carson-Newman College adapted for ENSIweb by L. Flammer Students use Biology Workbench to explore DNA sequence data for the GULOP gene in humans, SYNOPSIS chimpanzees, orangutans, and crab-eating macaques and the beta globin gene and its pseduogene in humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Many features of modern organisms reflect the PRINCIPAL CONCEPT structure of their ancestors in ways that are not adaptive. 1. DNA sequences from different species can be compared by aligning...

4. Teacher's Guide 2...A Zoo View...Lesson 1 Activity: "Home Sweet Home?"
...mal taken care of even if it is considered surplus, or is it destroyed? 5. Research some existing programs for reintroduction of endangered species into their native habitat. Determine what made some reintroductions, like the Arabian oryxes, successful and what made some failures, as in the case of orangutans. Suggested resources include: Ben Beck s study, Reintroduction of Captive-Born Animals in Creative Conservation: Interactive Management of Wild and Captive Animals, The Modern Ark by Vicki Croke and Zoo Book: the Evolution of Wildlife Conservation Centers by Linda Koebner. 6. Using the Decisions Cha...

5. Safety in Numbers
...about mandrill behavior still remain unanswered by researchers? 3. Working in small groups or individually, students choose a primate species for which they will conduct research and explore known social behavior patterns. Students may choose from any of the following primates: apes (e.g. gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas), monkeys (e.g. baboons, or mandrills), or prosimians (e.g. tree shrews and lemurs) known as 'lower primates.' There are approximately 235 known species of primates. Using all available resources students investigate the answers to the following questions (written on the board...

6. Primate Primer
...e? Why? e. Do all scientists agree with the report's conclusions? Why not? f. How might the apes be placed at lower risk of Ebola? 3. As a class, brainstorm a list on the board of the types of animals that belong in the primate family. Student responses might include chimpanzees, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, mandrills, lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, tarsiers, guenons, colubuses, capuchins, marmosets, tamarins and baboons. Each student should select one of the listed species to research. Multiple students may focus on the same species. In initial research, students will need to select one particu...

7. Lesson: evolution: Pseudogene Suite - Common Ancestry
...LUTION COMMON ANCESTRY? created by Mary Ball and Steve Karr Carson-Newman College Macroevolution adapted for ENSIweb by L. Flammer Students compare the DNA sequence data for a portion of the rat GULO gene to the corresponding sequence in the inactive GULO gene ("pseudogene") in humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and crab-eating macaques by identifying the shared sequences in their alignment. They compare the pseudogene sequences and note a shared deletion. In addition, students do an alignment for the SYNOPSIS first 25 codons of the functional human beta globin gene and its pseduogene in humans, gorillas,...

8. Animal Behavior
...ons over again, what sort of methods or guidelines would be useful? VIDEO REPORTS Some of the suggested videos are the National Geographic ones "Jane Goodall-My Life with Wild Chimpanzees, and "Urban Gorilla", as well as "Life with the Pumphouse Gang" with Shirley Strum, Birute Galdikas' studies of orangutans, and gorilla studies by Dian Fossey. While watching this video, take notes on the methodology of the researcher and some general observations about the primate observed. QUESTIONS 1. What kind of observations or experiments were done? 2. Give the name of the primate and where it lives, as well as th...

9. Evolution Lesson: Comparison of Human and Chimp. Chromosomes
...ns packet (4 pages), OR Version 2: Introduction / Procedures, Separate Worksheet (2 pages each) Teacher Answer Key (same for both versions) Human and Chimpanzee Karyotypes packet (four figures: 2a-2d) Hominoid Karyotypes (all chromosomes, on one MATERIALS page, of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans); this could just be an overhead transparency, if preferred) Human Chromosome 1 (overhead transparency), for discussion. Find this with Key/Resources material. "Phylogeny" (evolutionary tree) of hominoids, based on chromosome comparisons (overhead transparency) from article in Science, 1982, by Yuni...

10. Lesson: Chromosome Fusion
...imp chromosomes overlap and where the bands are not identical to those in our chromosome 2. Do you see the white band located there, labeled 2q13? B. INTERESTING QUESTION: Why does our chromosome 2 appear to be so very similar to the two shorter chromosomes found in apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans)? C. SOME POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS (Building a Working Hypothesis): 1. They were designed that way. 2. Chromosome 2 split into two (fission) in the ancestral branch (or branches) that produced the apes. 3. Chromosome 2 formed from the joining (fusion) of two shorter chromosomes in an early human ancest...