ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Three-Striped Night Monkey, Colobinae, Mantled Howler
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Lecture 9 survey of the living primates: part 2. Continue with survey of living primates: new world monkeys (continued, old world monkeys, lesser apes, great apes. Owl monkeys: aotus trivirgatus, brazil, peru, bolivia, paraguay, one-male/one-female groups (pair bonded, diet: fruit, leaves, insects, quadrupedal, only nocturnal anthropoid. Mantled howler monkey: alouatta palliate, southern mexico, central and south america, arboreal quadrupeds, prehensile tails, diet: young and mature leaves, fruits, flowers, muli-male/multi-female groups up to 21 individuals, loud vocalizations (howls) Woolly spider monkeys: brachyteles arachnoides, mexico, central and south america, diet: ripe fruit, average of 14 kilograms, fission-fusion social communities of up to 35 individuals. Might break off into sub-groups to go hunt/feed and then meet back up again: suspensory locomotion; adept at brachiation. Most widely distributed nonhuman primate: sub-saharan africa, southern asia. Ischial callosities: hardened area of skin found on primate bums, basically a seating pad for comfort, female monkeys during mating season might get swelling in this area.
