Over the past few months, secondary students from schools around the Barcelona metropolitan area explored the behaviour of the primates at the Barcelona Zoo. Lemurs, orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees, they had to get acclimatized to the gazes that with curiosity and patience, studied their group norms. At the same time, the students had to discover the hierarchical structures, or the elaboration of tools are not exclusive traits of humans; actually, they are behaviours that respond to a common evolutionary past between primates and humans. This exercise of the analysis gave way to a series of audiovisual documents in which behavioural patterns are explained, based in primatology and the theory of evolution.
The corresponding evaluation of the work was made public on June 8th 2007 in the Saló de Cròniques of the Barcelona City Hall. The act was attended by Jordi Sabater Pi, who gives name to this award. Emeritus Professor of the University of Barcelona and world figure in the field of primatology, the ethologist Sabater Pi has dedicated his entire life to the study of primates.
Sponsors: I
APS, IMAS, DPTO. Psiquiatria i medicina legal. Ajuntament de Barcelona. UAB.
