FOR201H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4 & 5: Geophagia, Folivore, Frugivore
Document Summary
Chapter 4 - more than monkeys, the vertebrates: Wallace"s line: separates faunas geographically due to continental movement. Brachiation: is the use of large forearms to swing from one branch to another in the canopy. Placental mammals: are all mammals except for marsupials and monotremes. They"re widespread and dominant the mammalian fauna of all rainforests except in australia-new guinea. They"re successful in the canopy along with primates and bats. Herbivorous sloths and howler monkeys account for 28% of the biomass in surinam, and as much as 71% in panama. Marsupials: are mammals that are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother"s belly. 13 families, 63 genera, over 270 species. Occur across the tropics except for australia and the pacific. Most primates are dependent on the forest. Some african rainforests report the highest primate biomass. Local primate richness is correlated with primary productivity. Equally distributed between the new and old world tropics.
