Primates in General
(True/False) All primates typically give birth to a single offspring
What is false
Name three strepsirrhine groups
What are lemurs, aye-ayes, bushbabies, slow lorises, angwantibo
Scientific name of New World Monkeys
What are platyrrhines
(True/False) Old World Monkeys are more closely related to humans than New World Monkeys
Name two features of apes
Larger brain, slower life history, more flexibility in shoulder joints, shoulder blade in the back, suspensory locomotion, barrel-shaped chest
Name two non-human primates that use stone tools
What are capuchins, macaques, chimpanzees
Name three strepsirrhine features
What are wet nose (rhinarium), better ability to smell, scent glands, tapetum lucidum, grooming claw, toothcomb, postorbital bar
I was an actor in the movie Outbreak and the TV show Friends?
What is capuchin
I have a big belly and a big nose
What is Proboscis monkey
I love singing in duet with my partner in the morning.
What is gibbon or siamang
Name two general traits of primates
What are large brain, slow life history, prehensile hands and feet, more joint flexibility, few offspring, 3D vision, postorbital bar or enclosed eye socket
I am the smallest living primate
What is Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
I have a prehensile tail (name two primates at least)
What are howler monkeys, spider monkeys, muriquis (capuchins)
Dental formula of Old World monkeys
What is 2.1.2.3
Chimpanzees' favorite meat (name the species)
What is red colobus monkey
Ability of females to terminate their pregnancies after a male take-over
What is Bruce effect
I have a 1.0.1.3/1.0.0.3 dental formula
What is aye-aye
Two New World monkey groups that can give birth to twins
What are marmosets and tamarins
I live in high altitude on the Ethiopian plateau and I am granivorous
What is the gelada baboon
The ability to perceive your own mental perspective and the mental perspective of another individual. An ability that apes have.
What is Theory of Mind
The two groups that are part of the euprimates, the earliest true primates (55-34 mya)
What are adapiforms and omomyiforms
I was named after one of my bones
What is tarsier
I have a red face
What is uakari
The species that your instructor study (scientific or common names)
What is northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina)
The largest primate that ever lived (scientific species name)
What is Gigantopithecus