SECTION 1: GENERAL INFORMATION:

Common name

Scientific name

Habitat at the Woodland Park Zoo

SECTION 2: ANIMALS YOU ARE OBSERVING

Animal A                                        Animal B

Sex                                                 Sex

Adult or juvenile                              Adult or juvenile

Length                                             Length

Weight                                            Weight

Color                                               Color

SECTION 3: OBSERVATIONS

Time intervals for each observation:

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5

Is animal alone or associating with other animals?

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5

What sex and age of animal is closest to the target animal?  How far from him/her?

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5

Is the target animal doing anything that would indicate he/she is dominant over or subordinate to other animals?  Describe what.

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5
 
Is Animal A communicating with any other animals?  If so, how?

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5

Is Animal A vocalizing or making any other sound?  If so, describe it.

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5

Is Animal A engaging in anything you would call play?  If so, what?  By her/himself, or with other animal(s)?

A-1                                                     B-1

A-2                                                     B-2

A-3                                                     B-3

A-4                                                     B-4

A-5                                                     B-5
 

SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS FROM YOUR OBSERVATIONS  

1. Are the animals you observed more social, less social, or about the same degree of social as human beings?  How do they interact in general?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. What patterns of interactions do you observe between males and females, or between adults and young?  How are these similar to or different from the patterns you would expect to see among humans?
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Are the males and females of the species you observed more  or less like each other than human males and females?  Does this explain any of the behaviors you have observed?
 
 
 
 
 
 

4. How do these animals indicate dominance and subordination?  Does this have anything to do with the way you do the same thing in your own life?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5. What is the relationship between communication and vocalization or other sounds among these animals?  How is their communication different from human language?  From human "body language"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6. What similarities or differences do you see between the play of these animals and the play of human children or adults?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7. Observing these relatives of yours, what would you say was the way in which they are the most like human beings?  In what way are they the most different from human beings?