ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Golden Lion Tamarin, Pygmy Marmoset, Emperor Tamarin

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 131
• Professor: Dennis Sandgathe

Document Summary

Suborder: prosimii ( prosimians : dental comb used for grooming removing parasites from their fur, grooming claw (same deal) Suborder: anthropoidea (monkeys and apes: family: platyrrhini, new world monkeys: Prehensile tails among some new world monkeys: 5 families in platyrrhini: Infraorder: catarrhini: old world monkeys and apes. Family: cercopithecidae (just the monkeys, not the apes) Greater size range than new world monkeys. Old world monkeys have ischial callosities (warts on their ass so they can sit on uncomfortable surfaces) Orangutans (2 species: they eats fruits, males will undergo physiological changes (they will get ripped/buff) when competing for chicks. Gorillas (2 species: gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla gorilla diehli, gorilla beringei graueri, gorilla beringei beringei, males around 180kg, females around half the size of dude gorillas, they prefer to eat fruit. Chimpanzees (2 species: pan troglodyte, pan paniscus (bonobo, chimpanzees eat meat and actively hunt, bonoboes have sex all the time, habitual bipedality, nest building, tool use.