ANTH 1001 : Test 2
Document Summary
Different kinds of primates: prosimians, zaboomafoo, new world monkeys, smaller, old world monkeys, apes, orangutan, gorilla. Taxonomy: proposed changes: name change in primate suborders, traditional: prosimi/anthropoidea, prosimians. Slow climbing: leaping/jumping: many non-human primates incorporate this into their locomotion strategies, brachiation: when the body is suspended from the forelimbs and alternate one limb at a time. Born able to care for themselves (mature) 2. 1. 3. 3 mandible (lower jaw: number of different types of teeth found in half the mouth, incisors, canines, pre-molars, molars, owm/apes/humans. 2. 1. 2. 3: diet, foragers: daily search for food, omnivores, frugivores: species where the bulk of their diet comes from fruit, gibbons, insectivores: insects- duh, folivore: leaves, carnivores: meat, relatively rare, gorillas, mostly folivores and insectivores. Sexual dimorphism: differences between males and females within the same species: size, shape, color. Social structure: residence pattern, solitary: males are solitary, females are solitary until they hook up with a male, have a kid and then remain solitary with their kid.
