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my Notes Why We Watch

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1 We humans have always had a close the easiest and safest ways to catch them. The
relationship with animals. The first humans earliest human language may even have been
competed with animals for food, water, and formed by copying sounds that animals made!
living space. Over time, though, humans have
3 Today, scientists regularly study animal
learned to raise animals on farms and use them behavior around the globe. Watching animals
for travel, help with tasks, and companionship. helps us understand behaviors that all animals,
Many of us even have animals we consider to even humans, have in common, such as
be members of our families!
antisocial aggression or a parent’s bond with
Getting to Know Animals its young. Observing animal behavior also

2 Knowing how animals behave was important to gives experts a chance to save endangered
human survival. It was crucial for early species. Often, changes in behavior are the
humans to know how predators such as wolves first clues that a species is heading toward
and big cats behaved in order to avoid them. extinction. Noticing these changes when
The traveling patterns of animals may have led they first occur may give scientists a head
early people to sources of water and food. start in figuring out solutions to protect
Hunters watched prey animals to figure out specific species.

A water buffalo pulls a Jane Goodall observes
farmer’s plow. a chimp up close.

A mother gorilla
carries her young.

A wolf pack hunts.

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