Los Angeles Zoo Primates Notes Gorillaz Western lowland Gorillas My first Ape i saw at the LA Zoo was the LowLand Gorilla. Because of the weather and temperature‚ the Gorrilas were not active as the stayed in the shade and away from observing eyes. Only one Gorilla was able to stay in the light and in the view of people trying to see into the zoo habitat for these Gorillas‚ Repunzel. Shes a beautiful lowland gorilla female sitting alone in te sunligt‚ happily grooming herself. Although shes
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This is why primate evolution is considered paleoanthropology (Begun‚ 2012). In researching the evolution of primates to humans a common topic is the curvature of hominoid phalangeal. The concept derives from the adaptation of tree living (arboreal) to land locomotion. When a prime is classified as arboreal the phalangeal
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Clay Chastain Dr. Hamilton‚ ANTH 2310-1 The Zoo Project: Nonhuman Primate Research 7 November 2006 Background Information In the world‚ a variety of primate species exist. Each species a unique function in the wild and differs‚ sometimes greatly‚ from another primate species. Two species that will be analyzed here are the Wolf’s Guenon (Cercopithecus wolfi)‚ an Old World monkey‚ and the Black-handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)‚ a
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Article Review #2: Living Primates The sciencemag.com article “Anti-Alzheimer’s Gene may have Led to the Rise of Grandparents” by Kelli Whitlock Burton talks about the how the protective variant of the CD33 gene may explain why humans have grandmothers that help with child rearing. The article explains the “grandmother hypothesis” that says humans live such long and healthy lives even after they are no longer able to reproduce because they help with child rearing. The CD33 gene plays a big role
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A Zoo for a Primate Observation 11/15/2012 For this paper I decided to visit Zoo Atlanta to observe lowland gorillas. I got to the zoo at around eleven in the morning and found out the feeding times for the gorillas. Once I found them‚ after watching them for a little while I selected the most active group to go watch during feeding. The point of this trip was to make me feel as if I was doing a field laboratory observation of primate social behavior
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the Survey of Primates film we watched in class. The film describes the basic characteristics of primates‚ illustrates the geographic locations and regions of their various primate forms. The movie also describes the various adaptations in which primates had evolved from in based on their location in the world‚ and also briefly describes types of behavioral and the social adaptions on primates’ relation towards humans. The film starts off by stating that the subspecies of primates are apes‚ monkeys
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Why Are Primates So Smart? Primates can be defined as the most developed order of mammals. All Primates are classified into one taxonomic order‚ which divides into two major suborders that differentiate physically from each other after taking different evolutionary lines. The lower primates prosimii commonly called prosimians‚ meaning "pre-monkey"‚ was the first suborder to evolve and includes animals such as lemurs‚ lorises‚ etc. Anthropoidea was the subsequent suborder to evolve‚ 90% of anthropoidea
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Primates‚ like humans have hands‚ feet and a brain. There are certain characteristics that defines a primate. The first trait is color vision. Although humans are capable of distinguishing a spectrum of color‚ other primates fail to do so because they are colorblind. Specifically‚ they cannot see the color red. As time passed by‚ color vision has evolved for primates. Unlike before‚ they have the ability to pick out red and orange fruit to eat for themselves. Another trait is grasping hands. It helps
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size and bipedalism. Humans‚ like other primates are considered as Order Primates in the Hominidae family and therefore are a prime example of taxonomy when the two diverged into different species. During taxonomy when humans diverged from their ancestors 6 to 7 million years ago‚ the result is the differences such as walking upright‚ brain size and overall skeletal structure are prominent due to the divergence of humans and other primates. Although primates and humans both share many anatomical‚
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To compare the distinctive features of primate parenting‚ we first need to know what they are. Primate parenting features including‚ feeding their offspring‚ along with teaching them vital skills in order for them to obtain their own food. An example of this would be the variety of tool using‚ or culture‚ used by several primates (using rocks to crack open nuts‚ or using a branch to get ants and consume them) not only demonstrate the learning ability of these creatures‚ but also the importance that
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