Primates in General
This is a subfield of biological anthropology that studies nonhuman primates.
What is primatology?
Lemurs are endemic to this country.
What is Madagascar?
Some platyrrhines have this unique feature that helps them hang by their tails.
What is a prehensile tail?
Catarrhine monkeys have this type of morphology in their lower molars.
What is bilophodont
This feature is present in monkeys and absent in apes.
What is a tail?
Most primates live in this kind of habitat.
What is tropical rain forest?
This characteristic feature of the mandibular incisors and canines is found only in strepsirrhines.
What is a toothcomb (dental comb)?
This is the number of premolars in the dental formula of this infraorder.
What is 3 premolars?
This term refers to differences in the size of the body and canines among male and female baboons.
What is sexual dimorphism?
Before Jane Goodall's studies of chimps, this behavior was thought to be unique to humans.
What is tool use?
According to a cladistic taxonomy, the primate order has two suborders: strepsirrhines and this other suborder.
What is haplorrhines?
This feature of the post-orbital morphology is characteristic of all strepsirhines.
What is the postorbital bar?
This is the part of the world in which extant platyrrhines are found.
What is central and Latin America?
This country is home to the northernmost ranging nonhuman primates.
What is Japan
Along with chimpanzees, this ape is the closest living relative of humans.
What is a bonobo?
This is a major reason why diurnal primates are protected by living in groups.
What is predation?
Under gradistic taxonomy, this primate once is classified as a prosimian but under cladistic taxonomy is considered to be a haplorine.
What is a tarsier?
These small Platyrrhines typically give birth to twins
What are marmosets and tamarins (callitrichids)?
Catarrhines comprise two major primate groups, Old World monkey and this other group.
Who are apes?
This feature of the molar teeth of apes that is characteristic of that group.
What is Y-5?
This is the only primate with a non-opposable hallux.
What is a human?
What feature of the foot is unique to all living strepsirrhines?
What is a grooming claw?
Primatologists believe that this is how the ancestors of platyrrhines reached South America from Africa.
What is island-hopping and oceanic rafting on floating vegetation mats?
This is the dental formula of all Catarrhines.
What is 2:1:2:3?
This ape characterized by a large, highly sexually dimorphic body size and a primarily solitary social structure.
What is an orangutan?