ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ebola Virus, Postorbital Bone, Gibbon

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

How to tell the difference between a primate and a mammal. Primate characteristics: primates are mammals ( warm- blooded, having hair & feeding milk to young ) primates differ from most mammals by having: Forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision ( close left eye and bring left arm around you can see it = depth perception. judges distance accurately) Cathemeral: active any time of the day or night primate diets: Most primates eat a variety of fruits, insects, owers and leaves. A sew species specialize by eating mostly or only leaves which take special gut adaptations to digest, or insects. Generally, larger -bodied species can eat more leaves whereas smaller- bodied species can eat more insects. Arboreal quadrupeds and leapers; some are partially terrestrial. Many small - bodied species are nocturnal. Found in sub-saharan africa and southeast asia. - found in southeast asia _ (e. g philippines) Relatively large eyes, with fused lower leg bones.