Describe some of the problems raised by observational studies of animals and some techniques that scientists have used to overcome them.
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: This chapter discussed three examples: Goodall’s study of chimpanzees, McIntyre’s study of ravens, and Coster and Ribble’s study of elephant-shrews. Goodall had to keep very good records, because at the time other scientists did not believe that chimps were as human-like as her observations revealed. McIntyre had to figure out where ravens were, so that the Army could relocate desert tortoises without them being eaten. She mapped raven locations to discover that they hung out along roads where they could feed on garbage; thus releasing the tortoises away from roads would have a better outcome. Elephant-shrews are almost impossible to observe, so Coster and Ribble had to count shrew burrows to produce an estimate of the shrew population.
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