ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tarsius, Lorisoidea, Lemur

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Sandra Bamford

Document Summary

Primates are mammals (warm blooded, having hair and feeding milk to young) Warm blooded we can produce our own warm blood, cold blooded animals have to use the environment to keep warm. Primates differ from most mammals by having (all of these things happening together, not individually): Forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision (visually dominated mammals) Portorbital bar: extruding from the skull: two superfamilies: lemuroidea and lorisoidea. Aboreal quadrupeds and leapersl some are partially terrestrial. Found throughout sub saharan africa and south east asia. Haplorphine characteristics: dry nose, retinal rovea (not good at seeing in the dark) Small body size: relatively large eyes with fused lower leg bones. Platyrrhines (neotropical monkeys: central and south america, body mass: 110 g - 11. 4 g, cebidae, atelidae, and callitrichidae. Prehensile tail in few species: most entirely arboreal. Catarrhini: africa, asia and southeast asia, body mass: 1 kg - 175 kg, cercopithecidar, hylobotidae and hominidae, variety of diets, social organizations.