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UO ANTH 171 final study guide
Haplorhines traits - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Dry noses
Lack of claws
Post orbital plate
Di/trichromatic vision
How did new world monkeys reach South America? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
Island hopping
Rafting
New world monkey traits - Correct Answer ✔️✔️2-1-3-3 dental formula
Exclusively arboreal quadrupeds
Prehensile tails (not all NWM have prehensile tails, any primate with a prehensile
tail is a NWM)
Pithecidae - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Social:
Diet: Granivorous (seeds)
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UO ANTH 171 final study guide

Haplorhines traits - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Dry noses

Lack of claws Post orbital plate Di/trichromatic vision How did new world monkeys reach South America? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Island hopping

Rafting New world monkey traits - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 2-1-3-3 dental formula Exclusively arboreal quadrupeds Prehensile tails (not all NWM have prehensile tails, any primate with a prehensile tail is a NWM) Pithecidae - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social:

Diet: Granivorous (seeds)

Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Arboreal Quadrupedalism (No prehensile tail) Cebidae - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Variable Diet: Variable Activity: Variable Locomotion: Arboreal quadrupedalism Capuchin & Squirrel monkeys - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Multi male multi female Diet: Omnivorous Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Arboreal quadrupedalism Owl Monkeys - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Pair-Bonded Diet: Frugivore Activity: Nocturnal

If there is no closure in the eye, what does that mean? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The animal is a strepsirhine

If there is partial closure, what does that mean? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ With huge orbits, this means the animal is a tarsier

If there are 3 premolars on top and bottom what does that mean? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The animal is a platyrrhine (new world monkey) If there is a 2-1-2-3 dental formula, what do bilonphidont molars mean? What about Y-5 molars? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Bilonphidont: Cercopithicoid (old world monkey) Y-5: Hominoid If there are bilonphidont molars and high sharp molar cusps what does this mean? What if they aren't high? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ High & sharp: Colobine Low: Cheek pouch monkey What is monogamy in mating? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1 male and 1 female, exclusive sexual relationship

What is polygynous mating? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1 male x amount of females, harem What is polyandry in mating? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1 female x amount of males What is polygyandry in mating? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ x males x females

What is the bone formula? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ (Humerus + Radius)/(Femur +Tibia) x 100 What are the ranges of locomotion and what do they mean? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ x<100 are Vertical leapers and climbers

x~100 is quadrupedal x>100 is suspensory What does it mean if a trait is homologous? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The trait comes from the ancestor What does it mean if a trait is analogous? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The body part is similar in function to that of an unrelated species

Where are chimpanzees? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Africa

Where are bonobos? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Africa

What diet do capuchin and squirrel monkeys have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Omnivores

What diet do Aye-Ayes have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Insectivores

What diet do sportive lemurs have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Folivores

What diet do indri and sifakas have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Folivores

What diet do Lorises have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Insectivores

What diet do galagos have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Insectivore

What diet do tarsiers have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Faunivorous

What diet do marmosets and Tamarins have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Gumivores

What diet do owl monkeys have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

What diet do cheek pouch monkeys have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

What diet do colobines have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Folivores

What diet do lesser apes have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

What diet do orangutans have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

What diet do Gorillas have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Folivores

What diet do chimps have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

What diet do bonobos have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Frugivores

Which primates are nocturnal? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Owl monkeys

Tarsiers Galagos Lorises Aye Ayes Mouse and Dwarf Lemurs Sportive lemurs What are lemuridae? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Ring Tailed Lemurs and Bamboo Lemurs

What type of locomotion do Gorillas, chimps and bonobos have? (Hominidae) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Suspensory and Knuckle walking

What type of locomotion do Orangutans have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Suspensory quadrumanous climbing What type of locomotion do Colobines and cheek pouch monkeys have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Arboreal quadrupedalism

What type of locomotion do Lorises have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Slow climbers What type of locomotion do galagos have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ VCL + arboreal quadrupedalism What type of locomotion do Mouse lemurs, true lemurs, and aye ayes have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Arboreal quadrupedalism

What type of locomotion do Indris and sportive lemurs have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ VCL

What type of locomotion do Tarsiers have? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ VCL

What is the difference in Strepsirhines and Haplorhines? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Strepsirhines have wet noses, haplorhines do not

What is the difference between Catarrhines and Platyrrhines? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Platyrrhines are new world monkeys, Catarrhines are old world

What is the difference between Hylobatidae and Hominidae? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Hylobatidae are lesser apes found in Asia, Hominidae are great apes in Africa Catarrhines - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Old world monkeys and apes

Raised nose and downturned nostrils 2-1-2-3 dental formula Cercopithicoid distinct features - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Ischial Callosities (butt pads) Bilonphidont molars Cercopithecines (cheek pouch monkeys) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Multi female Diet: Frugivore

Y-5 molars Suspensory locomotion What is the Miocene era? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ "Age of apes" most genetic diversity in apes ex: Gigantopithecus Hylobatidae vs Hominidae - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Hylobatidae are lesser apes, smaller Hominidae are the great apes Hylobatidae (lesser ape) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Pair-bonded

Diet: Frugivore Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Suspensory Southeast Asia Pongo (Orangutans) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Noyau

Diet: Frugivore

Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Suspensory quadrumenous climbing Borneo and Sumatra Hominidae species - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Gorilla Chimpanzee Bonobo Gorilla - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: One male multi female

Diet: Folivorous Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Suspensory & knuckle walking Africa Chimpanzee (common chimp) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Multi male multi female, fission-fusion Diet: Frugivore Activity: Diurnal

-juvenile adult Arboreal Hypothesis - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Primate traits evolved as a result of arboreal living Visual Predation Hypothesis - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Primate traits evolved due to predation on insects and other small creatures Angiosperm Coevolution Hypothesis - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Primate traits evolved in conjunction with the rise of angiosperms (Flowering plants) Developed to better eat fruits Plesiadapiforms - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Oldest descendants of primates, look like squirrels or rodents Strepsirhine characteristics - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Wet noses

Tooth comb Monochromatic Vision Grooming claw Tapetum Lucidium - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Layer in back of eye that reflects light, deer in headlight effect

Lemuridae (True Lemurs) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: multi male multi female Diet: Variable Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: Arboreal Quadrupeds Cheirogalidae (Mouse/Dwarf Lemurs) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Noyau

Diet: Variable Activity: Nocturnal Locomotion: Arboreal quadrupeds Indriidae (Indri/Sifakas) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Pair Bonded

Diet: Folivorous Activity: Diurnal Locomotion: VCL Lepilemuridae (sportive lemur) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Noyau

Diet: Folivorous

Activity: Nocturnal Locomotion: VCL + Arboreal quadrupedalism Found in Africa Tarsiers - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Social: Noyau Diet: Faunivorous (Meat) Activity: Nocturnal Locomotion: VCL