Research Station

Research Station

I) Migration will increase intraspecies xenophobia

Xenophobia reading

As refugees move from one area to another, I predict that regardless of resource availability "in group" individuals will reject "outgroup" individuals -> xenophobia in humans

Mass migration reading

Range shifts in chimpanzees (quantify where the new locations will be)

II) Increased environmental stochasticity will increase intra and interspecies aggression among great apes

III) Increased violence & reduced resource availability dramatically influences great ape culture

IV) In-group cultural exclusivity - out-group xenophobia & increased aggression

Methods

Chimpanzees

1) Identify field sites based on range shift changes
Field sites with very long term datasets -> Gombe/Tuanan/Tai/Kokolopori
Field sites with phonologies
Field sites where surrounding areas are subject to illegal logging

Orangutans

1) Identify field sites based on range shifts 

Why do we need to study this?

Climate change counters the narrative of conservation being a preventable evil by - It challenges the ideas of why we conserve, and 
In many ways the apocalyptic conditions are ones that humans in many parts of the world are already living under, and ancient hominids already will have. Numerous bottlenecks have occurred in human evolution in the face of widespread habitat loss or . Similarities amongst multiple great apes can reveal common cultural 
In our evolutionary history, humanity has gone through many climatic population bottlenecks due to natural disasters. 
Humanity has reckoned with catastrophic events before that are population threatening - This research can 
The Lake Toba eruption , and while the cause is disputed - east African chimpanzees, Bornean orangutans
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