Question 1

List five traits that tend to distinguish primates from other mammals.

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Question 2

List three life history traits.

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Question 3

Describe three of the four different locomotor systems found in apes.

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Question 4

Draw the phylogenetic relationships of the African hominoids, and indicate the position of last common ancestor between humans and apes.

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Question 5

Name one nonhuman primate found in each of the following areas today: Madagascar, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Africa.

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Question 6

Two primate species inhabit the same tropical forest, where logging operations have severely disturbed the habitat. There is no evidence that either species has been hunted, but in just a few years, the population size of one species declines. You know that one was a large, folivorous primate, and the other a smaller-bodied frugivore. Using your knowledge of body size energetics and life histories, explain which of the two species is most vulnerable to the kind of population crash described. (This may also be appropriate, with modifications, for Chapter 11).

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Question 7

Discuss the significance of trichromatic vision and its distribution among Primates.

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Quiz 2: Traits, Trends, and Taxonomy