ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Folivore, Common Chimpanzee, Rhinarium
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Chemical communication via scent-marking common (olfactory system) Toothcomb (modified incisors and canines) grooming. Grooming claw on the 2nd toe (used for grooming and fighting between males) Tapetum lucidum (active at night/ night vision) All are restricted to the old world (africa and asia) (pg. 44 map) Lemurs are only found in madagascar, galagos are found in africa, lorises and tarsiers are found in asia. Elongated middle finger to tap on wood and listen for grubs. Fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernates and enters torpor (metabolic state when the heart rate decreases) Locomotion: verticle clinging and leaping & bipedal hopping on ground. Some are nocturnal, some are diurnal, others are cathermeral (day and night) Toxin in saliva (keep babies away from predators) Cebids (cauphin monkey and squirrel monkey) prehensile tail frugivores and insectivores. Non opposable (since their all arboreal it"ll probably get in the way if it is opposable) Atelines (howler monkers, woolly monkeys, spider monkeys, muriquis)