Primate Observation Report
After going to Woodland Park and Zoo, observing primates has taught me about locomotor patterns of primates, relationships between locomotion and behavior, relationships between humans and other primates, and primates’ social interaction.
Western Lowland Gorrilas are knucke-walkers, but they do climb and have a small of time standing bipedally. Since adult gorillas’ sheer sizes are big, they have to climb on the main trunk of the tree. Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys are arboreal quadruped and are able to jump from tree to tree. They use their tails for balancing. Bornean Orangutans combine quadrupedal climbing and brachiation. They are long and narrow limbs which are useful to hook over a branch, they swing forward grasping the next branch with the other hand. Patas Monkeys are terrestrial quadruped because their …show more content…
Whatever we see, we and other primates are evidence for evolution. However, humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos.
Gorrillas groomed for each other and had sex.
The Colobus Monkeys stay with their troop. When I was there, they were laying down. My friend took out the selfie-stick so she could record what they were doing up there because was too high for us to see. One of them saw the selfie-stick, climbed to the tree nearby, looked at the rest of its troop and made a sound. The others noticed the selfie-stick, climbed down and hid away from us. Their social interaction was when they saw us, one of them made an alarm-calling so that the members of the troop would notice.
After two orangutans went inside the cave, one of them walked ahead and the other stopped nearby the “door”. The one which walked ahead turned around and went to the other that stopped nearby the
Western Lowland Gorrilas are knucke-walkers, but they do climb and have a small of time standing bipedally. Since adult gorillas’ sheer sizes are big, they have to climb on the main trunk of the tree. Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys are arboreal quadruped and are able to jump from tree to tree. They use their tails for balancing. Bornean Orangutans combine quadrupedal climbing and brachiation. They are long and narrow limbs which are useful to hook over a branch, they swing forward grasping the next branch with the other hand. Patas Monkeys are terrestrial quadruped because their …show more content…
Whatever we see, we and other primates are evidence for evolution. However, humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos.
Gorrillas groomed for each other and had sex.
The Colobus Monkeys stay with their troop. When I was there, they were laying down. My friend took out the selfie-stick so she could record what they were doing up there because was too high for us to see. One of them saw the selfie-stick, climbed to the tree nearby, looked at the rest of its troop and made a sound. The others noticed the selfie-stick, climbed down and hid away from us. Their social interaction was when they saw us, one of them made an alarm-calling so that the members of the troop would notice.
After two orangutans went inside the cave, one of them walked ahead and the other stopped nearby the “door”. The one which walked ahead turned around and went to the other that stopped nearby the