It's all Food!
Refers to how much food is available in a given area.
(Food) Abundance
A type of communication that uses loud calls to defend one's territory.
Vocal Communication
A form of competition where an animal consumes food before another animal can get to it.
Indirect Competition
The gender that most commonly disperses from their birth group.
Male primates
Branch of science that studies primate behavior.
Primatology
Refers to how food is spread out in an area.
(Food) Distribution
The type of communication involving grooming and physical contact.
Tactile communication
A mating relationship involving one male and one female.
Monogamy
True or False?
In all cases of primate life, caring for the young is solely the female primate's responsibility. Males will never carry and groom their infants.
False, it is a shared responsibility.
Jane Goodall studied this species of primates in Gombe, Tanzania.
Chimpanzees
This is an example of clumped distribution in food.
Fruits in fruit trees.
Name a function of grooming aside from hygiene.
To maintain social bond and relationships.
This term means using the environment differently to reduce competition.
Niche Partitioning
A social system wherein species can split into smaller groups and later come together again.
(F__ - F___ social systems)
Fission-fusion social systems
She studied mountain gorillas in Karisoke, Rwanda.
Dian Fossey
Modified True or False:
A primate's Basal Metabolic Rate decreases with its body size.
A type of communication that utilizes scent marking and urine washing.
Olfactory Communication
A mating relationship involves one female mating with multiple males.
Polyandry
A type of community where the geographic ranges of populations don’t overlap.
Allopatric Community
Birutė Galdikas studied this species of primate in Borneo
Orangutans
This is the rate at which energy is used to maintain the body while at rest.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
This term means raised fur, and it can make an individual appear larger.
Piloerection
This principle states that two species that compete for the same resources cannot coexist.
The Competitive Exclusion Principle
This term refers to individuals from different species associating with one another, with at least one species changing its behavior to maintain the association.
Polyspecific associations
Name the three women of Primatology.
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birutė Galdikas