the ape and monkey have more differences than they do similarities.Apes are large primates and are usually larger than monkeys.Apes do not have a tail while a monkey has a tail. Apes are also considered to be more intelligent than monkeys. Another big difference is that an ape can walk on two legs while a monkey walks on all fours.There are few similarities between the two when it comes to traits. They both are primates and both have fur on their bodies. Unlike the traits of monkeys and apes
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REASONING AND INTERPRETATION – Practice questions 1. Understanding the ecological mechanism that causes extinction is fundamental to conservation as not all organisms are threatened by the same factors. A total of 1012 threatened bird species in 95 families were studied to see how they were threatened by different factors: · habitat loss · persecution by humans and introduced predators · other factors (introduced competitors‚ hybridization and disease) and unknown risk factors. Scientists investigated
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prevalent in various types of primates. Such as in the beginning of the lab we were given three different casts of different primate species that were in a wooden box that contained a cast of the skull and mandible for all three species also specimen’s A & B had a tibia‚ fibula‚ radius‚ and an ulna that went along with their cast of their skulls. While performing the lab‚ the students had to identify the dental formula for each of the three species and determine the primate group the species belong to
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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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COMMON NAME‚ Giant Anteater also known as Myrmecophaga tridactyla as the scientific name is a Mammal. This Carnivores edentate animal can live up to 14 years in the wild‚ Head and body‚ 6 to 49 in; tail‚ 7 to 35 in and weighing 40 to 140 lbs. While being Edentate‚ the Giant Anteater has their long tongues that are more than sufficient to lap up the 35‚000 ants and termites they swallow each whole day. Raccoons The Raccoon also known as‚ Procyon lotor‚ lives in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. This Mammal
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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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24‚ 2014. from http://www.dilmahconservation.org/animal-profiles/purple-faced-langur/ Eudey‚ A. A. (1987). IUCN/SSC primate specialist group action plan for Asian primate conservation: 1987-91. Retrieved September 25‚ 2014. from https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/1987-021.pdf Huffman‚ M. A.‚ Kuruppu‚ N.‚ Nahallage‚ C. A. D. & Weerasingha‚ T. (2008). Diurnal primates in Sri Lanka and people’s perception of them. Retrieved September 24‚ 2014 from http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1896/052
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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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