ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rhinarium, Mate Choice, Seed Dispersal
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Mammals (warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to young) Cathemeral: active any time of day or night. Eat a variety of fruits, insects, flowers and leaves. A few species specialize by eating mostly only leaves, which take a special gut adaptations to digest, or insects. Generally, large-bodied species can eat more leaves whereas small-bodied species can eat more insects. Arboreal quadrupeds and leapers, some partially terrestrial. Found throughout sub-saharan africa and southeast asia. Haplorhine characteristics: dry nose, retinal fovea: depression at the back of the eye, amazing day time vision for colour and distance, postorbitol fovea: bone is fused, fused mandibular and frontal symphases, three infraorders: Transiiformes: one genus, found in southeast asia, small body size, relatively large eyes, with fused lower leg bones, entirely faunivorous. Platyrrhines (neotropical monkeys: central and south america, body mass 110g to 11. 4 kg, cebidae, atelidae and callitrichidae, prehensile tail in few species, most entirely arboreal.
