ANTH 111 Lecture 7: Jan29 - Anthro111
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*test next thursday 40 mc chapters 1-7. Hands and feet possess a grasping ability. Primates are mainly diurnal awake during the day because of poor eye sight and reliance on sounds. Classification chart in textbook *know characteristics of these groups. Prosimians lemurs and lorises most primitive of the primates. Lemurs more reliant on sense of smell wet soft noses dental comb madagascar both nocturnal and diurnal. Tarsiers do not have wet noses like other prosimians. Habits range of tropical forest to semiarid deserts africa, east asia. Gibbons southeast asia live in monogamous pairs and their offspring. Orangutans found only on borneo and sumatra, mostly arboreal pronounced sexual dimorphism (male much bigger than female) more solitary than other apes monogamous pairs. Gorillas terrestrial found in equatorial africa walk on front knuckles. Chimpanzees large groups of 50 stronger emotional bonds, stronger between females. Bonobos female centered communities males less dominant. Behavior anything organisms do that involves action in a response to stimuli.
