FOR201H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paleotropical Kingdom, Binomial Nomenclature, Simian
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# of species per site for above groups are close to or more than that of all of canada. In all of canada: 194 mammal, 426 bird and 84 herp species: primates. Anthropoid primates: higher primate, resembling human: neotropics: spider monkeys,tamarins, paleotropics: gibbons, chimps, colobus monkey. Prosimian primates: lower, primitive primate: paleotropics: tarsier, galagos, pottos, madagascar: lemurs . Most primates (a) can go up to 2-3000kg/km2 of monkey biomass!! Rare (eg. mouse lemurs) prosimians: scientific name for a species. Different species do not interbreed: taxonomic hierarchy. King phillip came over for great sex. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family + subfamily, genus, species. Names should be consistence with evolutionary tree or phylogeny. Specialization: some primates have important keystone resources and can have more specialized habitat requirements. Can engineer tropical environments: can shape the environment with their behaviour pattern. Rodents are the most speciose (rich in species) group of tropical mammals! Bats are the most abundant group of tropical mammals!
