ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Galago, Madagascar Spiny Forests, Color Blindness
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Important things to have when living in trees is a pair of hands and eyes. These are characteristics of primates which include monkeys, apes, man, and lemurs. The lemur is able to walk on the ground and in the trees. At first, lemurs don"t really look like monkeys (tail, etc) but its hands show that it is a primate. Marking lets troops leave scent of their territory. Babies grab on to parents fur and go with parents wherever they go. Lemurs 40-50 million years ago both in africa and europe about that time, madagascar was separated from africa so that they survived from better. Sefaca lemur spiny forest, it is specialized in jumping, it grasps branches when landing, their long hind legs makes walking on all fours impossible when on the ground so they walk on 2 legs. The indrin lemur: lives in a thick canopy, uses sounds to communicate with other indrin lemurs but do not use scent.
