-
Tree-living existence
Arboreal
-
Eat all kinds of food,including insects and small animals, as well as fruits,seeds,leaves,and roots.
Omnivorous
-
Most primates have a feature that allows an even more precise and powerful grip
opposable thumbs
-
Active during the day
Diurnal
-
The order Primates is often divided into two suborders
Prosimians (premonkeys) and the anthropoids
-
What animals are considered prosimians
lemurs,lorises,and tarsiers
-
what animals are anthropoid
new world monkeys,old world monkey,the lesser apes (gibbons,siamangs) the great apes (orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzess, and humans
-
What are quadrupeds
Animals that move on all fours
-
Using their hind lims alone to push off from one vertical position to another in a mode of locomotion
vertical clinging and leaping
-
active during the night
nocturnal
-
Have rounded braincases;reduced;nonmobile outer ears; and relatively small,flat faces instead of muzzles
Anthropoids (humans,apes,and monkeys
-
anthropoid order is divided into two main groups
platyrrhines and catarrhines
-
-
Cercopithecoids
Related more closely to humans than to New World monkeys have the same number of teeth as apes and humans.
-
Terrestrial
Ground-living
-
Sexual Dimorphism
the sexes look very different
-
Hominoid
- Hylobates (gibbons and siamangs)
- Pongids (great apes)
- Humans (hominoid)
-
Bilophodont patterent
their molars have two ridges or "loafs" running perpendicular to the cheeks
-
Diastema
where the canine sits when the jaws are closed
-
Brachiators
their long arms and fingers let them swing hand over hand through the trees.
-
to support the weight of massive chest,gorillas travel mostly on the ground on all fours in a form of locomotion known
knuckle walking
-
a dish-shaped pelvis, a lumbar curve in the spine,straight lower limbs,and arched,nonprehensile feet are related to
Bipedalism
-
center of speech and other higher mental activities
cerebral
|
|
