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Characteristics
Culture
Sociality
Evolution
Conservation
100
Enables them to perceive scenes from 2 slightly different angles
What is binocular vision
100
It is a word used when describing non-human primate culture
What is innovation
100
Primates have a long period of this
What is maternal dependence
100
Early ideas about primate origins were based on this
What is comparative morphology
100
114 primate species
What is the amount of primates on the Red List of Endangered species
200
The direction of primate eyes
What is forward-facing
200
It is why Imo (the Japanese macaque) washed her food in the sea
What is getting rid of sand
200
Primates learn this during childhood
What are the rules of their society
200
The discovery of this in 1953 changed how we look at the natural world forever!
What is DNA
200
The most endangered primate in the word
What is the Hainan gibbon
300
It is where the eyeball sits
What is the eye orbit
300
For Japanese macaques, this innovation served no purpose other than play
What is tapping stones together
300
The mother
Who a primate learns the most from
300
Early in the 19th Century, humans were mistakenly thought to be more closely related to this species
What is a gibbon
300
The 2 main threats to most primates
What are deforestation and hunting
400
The characteristic of the hands
What is grasping
400
Young gorillas watch elders to learn how to painlessly handle this when eating
What is stinging nettle
400
It is another word for the pecking order
What is dominance hierarchy
400
The name given to humans from about 22,000 years ago
What is cro-magnon
400
It is the most significant emerging threat
What is climate change
500
They have the largest, when compared to other mammals (for their body size)
What is a large brain
500
It is the primate known for using rocks to open nuts
What is the brown-capped capuchin
500
They engage in elaborate male/female duets
What is a siamang/gibbon
500
It is the Dawinian viewpoint of man/ape similarity
What is that we share a common ancestor
500
It is a source of harvested wildlife
What is bushmeat