Re: Chimps Walking Bipedally For A Kilometer Re: Bipedalism in different substrates

From: Rich Travsky (traRvEsky_at_hotMOVEmail.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:54:22 -0600

Bob Keeter wrote:
>
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotMOVEmail.com> wrote in message
> news:40DE092D.F2F2595F@hotMOVEmail.com...
> > Algis Kuliukas wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Bob posted something about 1km of bipedal walking. I've still not
> > > found the actual source of that either though. Shades of Jim Moore.
> > > Perhaps we shouldn't make these claims unless we have the facts. I
> > > mean isn't that what you guys are always telling AAH proponents? Could
> > > it be... another case of... (you know.)
> >
> > He gave the link for it.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/primates/primates.pongidae.pan.html
> > ...
> > They also are capable of a bipedal walk, but with the toes turned inward,
> and may
> > proceed for over a kilometer in this manner.
> > ...
> >
> > There's a reference for this shortly following that quote:
> >
> > Van Lawick-Goodall, J. 1968. The behaviour of free-living chimpanzees in
> the Gombe
> > Stream Reserve. Anim. Behav. Monogr. 1:165-311.
> >
> > Your apologies to Keeter and Moore are accepted.
> >
> > > [...]
>
> Thank you, sir! ;-) Afraid that thats one of those "problems" our friends
> have from
> time to time. Confronting facts is sometimes uncomfortable. 8-))

Goodall has more chimp observation time in her little finger than Algis
could ever hope to have.

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