COMMON NAME‚ Giant Anteater also known as Myrmecophaga tridactyla as the scientific name is a Mammal. This Carnivores edentate animal can live up to 14 years in the wild‚ Head and body‚ 6 to 49 in; tail‚ 7 to 35 in and weighing 40 to 140 lbs. While being Edentate‚ the Giant Anteater has their long tongues that are more than sufficient to lap up the 35‚000 ants and termites they swallow each whole day. Raccoons The Raccoon also known as‚ Procyon lotor‚ lives in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. This Mammal
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size‚ the case of reduced body size in the New World primates is quite unusual. To explain the phenomenon‚ the dwarfing hypothesis has been proposed (Martin‚ 1992). The dwarfing hypothesis implies that there must have been selective pressure that favored a reduction in body size. Phyletic dwarfing is then presumed to be fundamental to the further development of the species ’ characters (Martin‚ 1992). Callitrichids are not the only primates that are thought to have undergone phyletic dwarfing
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Chapter 6 Primates What is a primate? Primatology Evolutionary trends—these are part of a continuum 4 categories of primate traits: 1. Locomotor 2. Dietary 3. Sensory 4. Behavioral/life history 1. What are the locomotor trends of the primates? Types of locomotion Brachiation Suspensory climbing VCL--what does this stand for? Arboreal quadrupedalism Terrestrial quadrupedalism Knuckle-walking quadrupedalism Bipedalism Limb proportions Location of the foramen magnum—what
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24‚ 2014. from http://www.dilmahconservation.org/animal-profiles/purple-faced-langur/ Eudey‚ A. A. (1987). IUCN/SSC primate specialist group action plan for Asian primate conservation: 1987-91. Retrieved September 25‚ 2014. from https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/1987-021.pdf Huffman‚ M. A.‚ Kuruppu‚ N.‚ Nahallage‚ C. A. D. & Weerasingha‚ T. (2008). Diurnal primates in Sri Lanka and people’s perception of them. Retrieved September 24‚ 2014 from http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1896/052
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these primates’ specimens to study learning‚ cognition and memory. His experiments involved the separation of the newly born monkeys from their mothers. He tried to investigate the significance of baby’s love. Since the young monkeys were brought up in diapers‚ he observed that as they continued to grow‚ they had a tendency appreciating their older diapers. Additionally‚ he found that the young monkeys felt safe while near their mothers. He did this by scaring and torturing these primates by hanging
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Summary Paper Machiavellian Monkeys "The sneaky skills of our primate cousins suggest that we may owe our great intelligence to an inherited need to deceive." Machiavellian Monkeys‚ James Shreeve‚ Discover‚ June 1991. Fraud. Deception. Infidelity. Theft. When these words are spoken‚ or read‚ the first thought is of human traits. Not once would someone think of animals as being capable of such actions‚ but people forget that humans are animals‚ and that the human animal evolved from a creature
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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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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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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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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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