The zoo trip was a great experience and I learned a lot about the primate’s behaviors and how they interact with each other. Seeing the primates in person face to face was incredible because I could see how they interact with themselves‚ communicate with others by grooming. The primate group that I liked the best were the common squirrel monkeys‚ they were very small and playful. They kept playing with others in their group and climbing through the branches‚ collecting food. The common squirrel monkeys
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The Extraordinary Kinship and Differences Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates If you were to look at an ape right now‚ you would find an ongoing list of both similarities and differences they have with humans. Besides the obvious similarities and differences‚ apes and our nonhuman primates are just like us in so many extraordinary ways. However‚ there are various skills and abilities we possess that they don’t‚ and vice versa. Moreover‚ for the past fifty years anthropologists‚ scholars and researchers
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apes support this theory. PRIMATES Primates are a group of mammals that have special characteristics that include: both eyes are located at the front of the head and they provide binocular or three-dimensional vision; also all primates have 5 fingers (four fingers and a thumb). The ancestors of the primates were mouse like mammals that were awake in the nights‚ lived in the trees and they eat insects. The first primates exist after the dinosaurs die. The first primates were the ones that had larger
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Early human evolution is characterised by speciation. The term speciation refers to “the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution”. Recently‚ experts in the field of evolution have given special emphasis to the new and most controversial issue of Homo floresiensis. Homo floresiensis (known as the Hobbit Man and LB1) is the little bodied and an extinct species that was discovered from a fossil and simple stone tools in 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Scientists indicate
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Tupaia belangeri after investigating the primate lineage in a phylogenetic tree to determine the closest next level of ordering above primates. I wanted to ensure the closest relation to the primate species to allow for the highest
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Bibliography: Chandler‚ David. "Bill Would Give Rights to Primates." Boston Globe (February 16‚ 1999): A1. Croke‚ Vicki. "Attorney Wise for the Defenseless." Boston Globe (March 18‚ 2000): F1. Floria‚ Gwen. "Legal Activism on Behalf of Animals Gathering Momentum." Houston Chronicle (January 9‚ 2000): 21. Italie
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After going to Woodland Park and Zoo‚ observing primates has taught me about locomotor patterns of primates‚ relationships between locomotion and behavior‚ relationships between humans and other primates‚ and primates’ social interaction. Western Lowland Gorrilas are knucke-walkers‚ but they do climb and have a small of time standing bipedally. Since adult gorillas’ sheer sizes are big‚ they have to climb on the main trunk of the tree. Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys are arboreal quadruped and
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organization vary among primates? How does social organization relate to adaptation to particular environments? Use at least 3 primates with examples and specific detail. Compare and contrast the social organization of orangutans‚ gorillas‚ and common chimpanzees. Social organization among primates varies in many ways. To name a few‚ primates have variations in body size‚ group composition‚ dominance hierarchies‚ diet and mating systems (158). In spite of the differences among primates‚ their social organization
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understanding the evolution of the unique characteristics of the human brain requires studying the brain of other living primate species. In other words‚ a specific evolutionary change in the human brain cannot be inferred to be unique to the human lineage unless other species sharing a last common ancestor don’t have it. That being said‚ Rilling emphasizes the role of comparative neuroimaging to investigate the similarities and differences between human and non-human primate brains‚ and highlights
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How do primates represent spatial information mentally and use this information for navigation? Researchers have proposed two major mental map representations of space in non-human primates. In a route-based or topological spatial representation map‚ primates have ideal pathways that they make use of repeatedly. Route-based makes also consist of discrete chosen landmarks as reference points to arrive at numerous locations from distinct directions (Urbani‚ 2009). In comparison‚ euclidean (coordinate-based)
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