ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes -Stereopsis, Behavioral Ecology, Amboseli National Park
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The tropical forests where most primates live are humid, shadowy places. Rapid advances in comparative genomics continue to be made as the number of primate genomes that have been sequenced has grown, challenging the ethical as well as biological. Hierarchical society of baboons, in which access to important resources such as food and mate are determined by agnostic, or aggressive and submissive interactions between females and males. Female baboons spend their lives in their natal groups, or birth groups, and maintain strong affiliative bonds with their closest relatives. Nowadays, many questions in primate behavioural ecology focus on efforts to under the ultimate or evolutionary function of behavior. These functional approaches address the question of why primates have been selected to behave as they do under particular conditions. Ontogenetic level of explanation: when a particular trait or behavior emerges during an individual"s lifestime.
