friendly and provided educational facts to the public. This is the second time that I visit LA Zoo because I want to observe the activities and behavior of some selected primates. I spent most of the time observing all the animals and learning about them and their native habitats. LA Zoo is laid out by continental area‚ so the primate exhibits are scattered throughout the zoo. I began with the New World monkey located in the South American section of the zoo. In exhibit area 75‚ I saw three species
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Monkeys‚ Too‚ Can Recollect What They’ve Seen‚ Study Suggests It’s one thing to recognize your childhood home when you see it in a photograph and quite another to accurately describe or draw a picture of it based on your recollection of how it looked. A new report published online on April 28 in Current Biology‚ a Cell Press publication‚ offers some of the first clear evidence that monkeys‚ like humans‚ have the capacity for both forms of memory. The researchers found that rhesus monkeys can flexibly
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Chapter 6 Primates What is a primate? Primatology Evolutionary trends—these are part of a continuum 4 categories of primate traits: 1. Locomotor 2. Dietary 3. Sensory 4. Behavioral/life history 1. What are the locomotor trends of the primates? Types of locomotion Brachiation Suspensory climbing VCL--what does this stand for? Arboreal quadrupedalism Terrestrial quadrupedalism Knuckle-walking quadrupedalism Bipedalism Limb proportions Location of the foramen magnum—what
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Summary Paper Machiavellian Monkeys "The sneaky skills of our primate cousins suggest that we may owe our great intelligence to an inherited need to deceive." Machiavellian Monkeys‚ James Shreeve‚ Discover‚ June 1991. Fraud. Deception. Infidelity. Theft. When these words are spoken‚ or read‚ the first thought is of human traits. Not once would someone think of animals as being capable of such actions‚ but people forget that humans are animals‚ and that the human animal evolved from a creature
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these primates’ specimens to study learning‚ cognition and memory. His experiments involved the separation of the newly born monkeys from their mothers. He tried to investigate the significance of baby’s love. Since the young monkeys were brought up in diapers‚ he observed that as they continued to grow‚ they had a tendency appreciating their older diapers. Additionally‚ he found that the young monkeys felt safe while near their mothers. He did this by scaring and torturing these primates by hanging
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Baboons are large‚ old world monkeys that reside in many different parts of Africa. They are largely terrestrial non-human primates that spend most of the daylight time on the ground‚ and the night in trees and caves. They live in social groups that can range from around 10 to around 100. An interesting fact about baboons is they are sexually dimorphic‚ meaning that the female baboons only grow to about 50-60 percent compared to the male baboons. Variations in troop mates happens when males are females
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Planet of Life: Apes to Man: Teacher’s Guide Grade Level: 6-8 Curriculum Focus: Animals Lesson Duration: Two class periods Program Description Climb our family tree in Apes to Man to find out how the unpredictable forces of evolution shaped our primate ancestors and Earth’s first hominids. And discover the many fine traits we have in common — including perception‚ cleverness‚ and a gift for communicating! Onscreen Questions and Activities Segment 1‚ Planet of Life: Apes to Man: Part One • • •
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Capuchins are part of a subfamily of New World monkeys called cebines. The Capuchin monkey has been regarded as one of the most intelligent primates. This intelligence is what makes them my favorite primate. They are able to learn and apply this knowledge in performing tasks for survival‚ as well as things like assisting humans. Although there are several species of Capuchin monkeys that may slightly differ in habitat‚ size‚ color‚ and other characteristics of morphology‚ one thing they all have
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investigate the two major theories trying to explain why do primates have large brains. Even since the seminar study of Jerison in 1973 it has been acknowledged that primate brains are unusually large for their body size. There are three main groups of theories giving more or less persuasive explanations of the evolution of large brains and high cognitive skills in primates. The first group is a group of social theories‚ postulating that primate cognition is a result of complex social interactions between
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how South America at that time was quite isolated after it’s separation from Africa during the Mesozoic era and the earliest fossil record indicate the first primates were not found there until the late Oligocene ephoch‚ this left many to theorize about how they may have reached such a secluded land. One theory by scientist is that the primates rafted from Africa by make-shift vegetation rafts or accidental rafting across the Atlantic Ocean rafting from one island to the next that the ocean current
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