ANT100Y1 Lecture : Primate Behavior and Ecology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

mammals, not pets; differ from most mammals by having grasping hands and feet, collarbone (clavicle), radius and ulna, forward facing eyes and stereoscopic vision (depth perception) dangerous, belong in the wild; diseases disastrous; visually oriented. activity patterns: nocturnal (active at night), diurnal (active during day), crespuscular (active at dusk and dawn), cathemeral (active any time of day or night) diets: frugivore (fruit), folivore (leaves), insectivore (diet of insects), graminivore (diet of small seeds and grasses), faunivore (invertebrates and vertebrates), gummivore (tree exudates), graminivore (small seeds and grasses), seed predator/schelerocarpivory (hard seeds), omnivore (varied diet) Strepsirhine characteristics: dental tooth comb, moist rhinarium, unfused manibular and frontal sympases, taetum hicidum, postorbital bar: two superfamilies: lemuroidea: madagascar and comoro islands, arboreal quadrupeds and leapers, some partially terrestrial, many small-bodies species are nocturnal, females dominance, varied diet. lorisoidea: found throughout sub-saharan africa and southeast asia, lorises and galagos, arboreal quadrupeds, nocturnal, varied diet.