ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stereopsis, Cathemerality, Strepsirrhini
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Announcements: week 1 cycle this tuesday: cladistics tutorial with hands-on analyse of casts of fossil and chimpanzee skulls, event until 5:30 pm on oct 4th in convocation hall. You will not be able to enter until the 1,500 people have left: do not crowd the doors! Lecture goals: how primates differ from other animals, basic taxonomic characters of living primates, primate ecology and sociality, main conservation issues for primates. Primates are mammals (warm-blooded, having hair, & feeding milk to young): not pets or actors! Primate activity patterns: nocturnal: active at night, diurnal: active during day. Crepuscular: active at dawn & dusk skunk or squirrel. Cathemeral: active any time of day or night. Strepsirhine characteristics: dental tooth comb, moist rhinarium, unfused mandibular and frontal symphases. Arboreal quadrupeds and leapers; some are partially terrestrial. Lemurodiea: madagascar and comoro islands, many small-bodied species are nocturnal, nocturnal, varied diets.
