Chapter 6

Question 1

Vertical clinging and leaping is a locomotor pattern frequently practice by?

Answer 1

Lemurs and tarsiers

Question 2

What is seen in some new world monkeys, but not in any old world monkeys?

Answer 2

A prehensile tail

Question 3

Primates two suborders are?

Answer 3

Strepsirhini

Haplorhini

Question 4

The suborder strepsirhini includes?

Answer 4

Lemurs and lorises

Question 5

Old world monkeys are separated from apes and humans at the level of the ?

Answer 5

Superfamily

Question 6

Tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans are placed together in which suborder?

Answer 6

Haplorhini

Question 7

Anthropoids generally?

Answer 7

Depend less on olfaction and more on vision

Question 8

Monkeys are divided into which two major groups?

Answer 8

New and old world

Question 9

Old world monkeys found?

Answer 9

Sub Sahara Africa

Southern Asia

Northern Japan

Question 10

Sexual dimorphism

Answer 10

Refers to difference between the sexes with regard to features such as body size

Question 11

Compared to monkeys, Hominoids

Answer 11

generally have larger body sizes and lack a tail

Question 12

Orangutans

Answer 12

Have very large, highly sexually dimorphic body sizes and live largely solitary lives

Question 13

What is a major underlying factor for the declining numbers of nonhuman primates?

Answer 13

Unprecedented human population growth

Question 14

Primate taxonomy suborders?

Answer 14

Primate: strepsirrhini or haplorrhini

Question 15

Primates characteristics?

Answer 15

Grasping hands
Opposable thumbs 
Nails 
Five digits 
Clavicle 
Lesser sense of smell and hearing 
Eyes rotated forward 
Orbital closure

Question 16

Vision in primates?

Answer 16

Enhanced sense of vision 
Forward facing eyes 
Binocular visión 
Depth perception 
Color vision

Question 17

Sexual dimorphism

Answer 17

Refers to difference between the sexes with regard to features such as body size