ANT100Y1 Lecture 3: lecture 3 bio
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Anthropology lecture 3 primates behaviour and ecology. Goals primates differ from mammals basic taxonomic characteristics of living primates primate ecology and sociology. Primates are mammals (warm-blooded, having hair & feeding milk to its young) homoeothermic (maintain body to regulate temperature) Primates differ from mammals (all of these must apply: grasping hands and feet, collarbone (clavicle) 4. radius (bones in wrist) and ulna (joins elbow) forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision. S overlapping of eyes provides depth perception nerves go from both eyes to brain. Most primates don"t smell as well and they interact with their environment in a different way. Primate diets frugivore: eats only fruit folivore: eats only leaves insectivore: eats only insects faunivore: eats invertebrates and vertebrates gummivore: eats tree exudates (ex. sap) omnivore: eats everything gramirivore: eats small seeds and grass schlerocapirory: eats hard seeds. Strepsirhine characteristics dental tooth comb (groom selves and others)
