ANT100Y1 Lecture : Primate Behaviour and Ecology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ember

Document Summary

Main conservation issues primates are dealing with. Primates are mammals (warm blooded having hair and feeding milk to it s young, they can regulate their body temperature) Primates differ from most mammals in having: grasping hands and feet, collarbones (clavicle), radius and ulna, forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision. Cathermeral: active any time of the day or night. Two superfamilies: lemuroidea (madagascar & comorn islands; partially terrestrial; many small bodied ones are nocturnal; female dominance; varied diet) and lorisoidea (found in sub-saharan africa and south east asia; all nocturnal; varied diet). Rarest primate: sifaka. (found only in madagascar) Lorises and galagos: found in sub-saharan africa and south east asia. Fused mandibular and frontal synphases (of tarsiers) > tarsiirformes (one genus (tarsus); found in s. e. asia; small body size, relatively large eyes and fused lower leg bones; entirely carnivores). > platyrrhines / neo-tropical monkeys (central and south america, body size (110g-144g); cebidea, atelidae and callirtrichidae; most entirely arboreal;