Jane Goodall was made famous by a big discovery. Yesterday, we were able to observe this discovery on our video. One day while Jane was observing the chimpanzees, she observed one of them taking a stick, stripping the leaves off of the stick, then climbing up in a tree and sticking the stick into the hole of a termite mound. As they drew the stick out, many termites were stuck on the end of the stick, which they then ate! Jane nicknamed this practice "termite fishing," but she also saw them practice this technique with army or fire ants. With this, Jane observed chimpanzees using a stick as a tool. Using tools was something that, at the time, was thought of to be only a human action. With this discovery, many believed we needed to redefine man.
More notes on the video will be posted later today.
Today, we will finish the video and work on food webs.
A food web shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem. Pictures and arrows are used to show the flow. The arrows go from the picture of one object to the picture of the thing that gets the energy. For example, if we had a picture of a plant and the sun, the arrow would go from the sun to the plant because the plant gets energy from the sun.
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