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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million years ago (Ratsirarson 2003). A primate who is native to the island of Madagascar is the Lemur Catta‚ also known as the ring-tailed lemur. Lemur Catta are endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar‚ with an additional population on the southeastern plateau of the Andringita Mountains. The ring tailed lemur’s classification is of the following‚ Domain: Eukaryota‚ Kingdom: Animalia‚ Phylum: Chordata‚ Subphylum: Vertebrata‚ Class: Mammalia‚ Order: Primates‚ Family: Lemuridae‚ Genus: Lemus‚ and
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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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This article is summarized as the experimentation to observe the intelligence and mental abilities of the Baboons. The achievements of the experiment are to better our understanding of the "high mental processes" of animals‚ chiefly Primates. The experiment entailed two baboons and two humans in a couple of relation experiments on a computer. Both pairs were subjected to the find correlations and relations on a computer screen and then using a joystick point in the direction of the correct answer
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belongs to the group of primates‚ has great mental development with emotions‚ and interacts with their society. Some of the main things that distinguish humans from other species is their body form‚ spiritualism and their use of tools. To be human‚ one must have similar bodies and physical form to those of Primates. Unlike other species‚ humans have parts such as nimble and opposable thumbs‚ and a larger brain. One of the most distinctive abilities humans have over other primates is that humans are
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In the book The Shadow of Man‚ the chimpanzees being studied are sometimes referred to as monkeys and sometimes as apes. This led me to wonder if there was in fact a difference between monkeys and apes‚ or if they were just two different ways of saying the same thing. From researching this topic‚ I found that monkeys and apes belong to the same Domain‚ Kingdom‚ Phylum‚ Class‚ Order‚ and Sub Order‚ but have a number of profound differences that show up in what Family they belong to. Apes belong
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While humans and primates are related in many ways‚ there are distinct characteristics for hominids. The most unique characteristic difference that separates hominids and non-human primates is bipedalism. While hominids walk on two feet‚ non-human primates are quadrupedal‚ using all fours to get around. Multiple experiments were conducted to identify between the advantages and disadvantages of being bipedal. The first experiment involved observing human and non-human primates and their difference
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