ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dominatrix, Callitrichidae, Old World Monkey

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

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Ant100y1 lecture #4 primate behaviour and ecology. Mammals (warm-blooded, having hair, feeding milk to young, mammary glands) Primates have infections that are not lethal to them but are lethal to us o. Primates are not pets, for every 1 monkey 100s have died in the process. Primates differ from most mammals because: o o o o. Forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision (depth perception) Diurnal: active during the day (relatively smaller eyes) Cathemeral: active any time of day or night. Diets: adaptations to digest, or insects species can eat more insects. Most primates eat a variety of fruits insects flowers and leaves. A few species specialize by eating mostly or only leaves, which take special gut. Generally, larger-bodied species can eat more leaves whereas smaller-bodied. Unfused mandibular and frontal symphases (when two bones are fused. Postorbitol bar (socket of bone around the eye; that you can put your finger. Arboreal quadrupeds and leapers (live in trees); some are partially terrestrial.