Essay On Primates

A few weeks ago, I spent a lovely Monday afternoon observing two different primates at the Santa Ana Zoo. I got to the zoo around two in the afternoon, and to my surprise, the zoo was decently crowded. The Santa Ana Zoo is smaller in comparison to other zoos like the Los Angeles Zoo, but still had a decent amount of animals there. Covering a small 20 acres of land, I came across two primates that fit perfectly for the purposes of this course project. I chose to observe an endangered ape, the white-handed gibbon, and an endangered new world monkey, the golden-headed lion tamarin.

Natural Selection is one of the most interesting aspects that developed by the process and is given to the environmental primates. The evolutionary process is for the survival of the fittest,it has proteins that travel from the DNA. The changes focus on life of the primates and are responsible for the phenotype that makes each one of us different than the rest. Since humans are primates, humans and apes have been said to share a lot of similarities. In chapter six, it talked about traits from non human primates to characteristics. More efficient, greater dependence of flexible learned behavior. Other than humans,primates consist of lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. Primate social behavior is understanding the concepts distinguished

The primates species that I observed were the Bornean orangutans and the Sumatran orangutans. There were three adult females. one adult male, and one infant female. The orangutans were observed at San Diego zoo’s ape webcam on April 26, 2106.

The primary message this page wants to address is that humans are very similar to other primates because humans are primates as well. Many of the similarities can be seen in appearances and genetic code though their behavior is a lot more similar than some would think. The page also wants to convey that it will address some of the ways that human and other primates are similar and different.

This paper will discuss primate morphology for the Lemur catta, also known as the ring tailed lemur, what characterizes them as primates, how they react in their environment, and their social and adaptive behaviors in that environment. The Lemur catta and it is only found in the island of Madagascar, as well as off the coast of southeast Africa. In Madagascar, they reside in the southeastern portion anywhere from sea level, up to 8530 feet high. Their environment consists mainly of tropical forested area in the proximity of nine forests: Andohahela, Andringitra, Ankilitelo, Berenty, Beza Mahafaly, Isalo, Tsimanampetsotsa, Tsirave, and Zombitse (Godfrey et al. 1998). According to the National Primate Research Center (pin.primate.wisc.edu), they also have a variety of habitats for example rainforests, spiny bush forests, subalpine, deciduous, and gallery. However, a lot of their habitat has been affected by constant human contact; agricultural clearing, deforestation, and burning to produce charcoal. The Lemur catta need to be able to hide in the forest and they are not very good at adapting to new environments so they depend a lot on the forested areas. The southwest part of Madagascar is very prone to droughts and they can have serious effects on the habitats of ring-tailed lemurs and other mammals. I will discuss what makes the Lemur catta a primate and the primate characteristics that they possess. Then, I will express the specialized, physical characteristics that they

For this paper I decided to visit Zoo Atlanta to observe lowland gorillas. I got to the zoo at around eleven in the morning and found out the feeding times for the gorillas. Once I found them, after watching them for a little while I selected the most active group to go watch during feeding. The point of this trip was to make me feel as if I was doing a field laboratory observation of primate social behavior and it definitely did. As you read my paper I will include what I saw, my feelings towards it, and also any questions or facts I received during my visit from volunteers or signs throughout the exhibit. To put this paper

In semi-free ranging studies, scientists see how primates act in the wilderness

The orangutans have opposable thumbs, close to their other digits like humans, and their thumbs appear to be much smaller than their other digits.

Researchers have taken the Y-chromosome of higher primates including humans, and great apes (orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas) and ran analysis research. They have discovered that the X and Y chromosomes recombine only at the pseudo autosomal region (PAR), which is located at the tip of one arm of X and Y chromosome respectively (Wimmer et al., 2005). They have also discovered that due to lack of recombination the Y-chromosome goes through, there is a specific point in the gene where mutations accumulate (MSY) in almost all primates (Wimmer et al., 2005).

Primate have distinct forms of social groups. Evolution has worked to reward the primates that find better ways for survival. Essentially the concept of survival of the fittest. Different species of primates have different residency patterns. Food is often the defining factor in determining the type of social group a species lives in.

In this week’s reading there were two articles that we were given to read. First, I am going to discuss Chapais’ "Monogamy, strongly bonded groups, and the evolution of human social structure." Then, I will go on to discuss Rodseth’s "The human community as a primate society." I was very torn it when it came to how I felt about the article by Chapais. I found the topic itself to be very interesting. However, the article was difficult and dry to read. As someone who loves studying why we are they way we are, the idea that we have evolved to create the types of societies we do is an intriguing topic. Something I wish the author would have talked about was our tend to segregate our societies by upper, middle, and lower class. I would like to know

Many of the primates, have hands that allow them to have a firm grip similar to humans. This is essential to primates such as apes and orangutans, seeing that it allows them to swing from tree-to-tree. Humans need to grip in order to complete many basic tasks such as writing of opening a door. Apes, for example, use their hands to utilize tools to allow them to crack open nuts. Not only do they require the use of their hands to crack open nuts, but it also requires intelligence. Apes determine how much force they need to apply on the nut with the use of their tools in order to only crush the shell and not the nut. Humans are are the smartest of all the primates and use their intelligence on an everyday basis. Orangutans live in the rain forest

It is worth noting immediately that based on the above results, Hunt’s 1992 terminal branch feeding hypothesis does indeed hold for a suspensory, frugivorous, fission-fusion New World primate, Ateles geoffroyi. With a significance level of p < 0.001 for three of the four variable analyses (positional terminal vs. non: p = 0.0352), it can be safely speculated that behaviors, both positional and postural, vary significantly between terminal and non-terminal branches; this idea holds as well for small/medium and large/very large weight-bearing structures. Additionally, the predicted association of suspensory modes with small or medium weight-bearing structures was confirmed (p < 0.0001).

Primates are threatened by many different factors but Hunting and Habitat Disturbance has become the most common threats to primate survival. As the human population continues to grow and thrives to meet its daily needs and resource demands (Oates, 2013). In other words, forest areas are altered for urban and economic development through agricultural expansion, logging, mining, road expansions, water projects and cattle grazing (Mittermeier, 1988).

: the ancestors shared by homonids and chimpanzees are clearly tree dwellers, that prospered in once lush forest. now it would hae to adapt or perish.