Squirrel Monkey Observation

They are very fast and can be able to run within short distances using the most minimal time. It takes less than 10 seconds to run within a distance of approximately 100 meters. While the animals move around they try to monitor the environment as quadrupedally and monitoring of the environment can be able to take as much as up to ten minutes in any case they have doubts of where they are, this alerts them of any predators. Consortship is a situation where the two animals would stay close to each other and monitor the movement and environment of each other. This is done as long as the animals are out in an environment that is not seen as being friendly. The patas can be seen to be less vocal and they move around in silence, they make certain noise only once when they have seen a predator. The noise or the sound takes just a few seconds as long as the danger is taken away

Through this assignment, we will see how primates express their behaviors and understand the meaning behind them. For my observation, it will be based on the orangutans, which is classified in the genus Pongo. The San Diego zoo itself is set up with a lot of ropes, balls, hammocks, rocks and more for the animal to interact with in the grassy area. There are many levels of ground elevations that allowed the primate to have maximum space to explore around and live in. After seeing how the specie interacts and behaves, I can relate it to human behaviors and how we gain our roots from them. One of the small orangutans I observed was very active and kept climbing on different levels of the ropes and interacted with many other of the inhabitants.

Joseph Henrich began, A Puzzling Primate, by describing how physically inept human beings are when compared to the rest of the animal kingdom. He continues with this logic when he demonstrates, that humans in this era, would not be able to survive if placed in the wild forest environment. Due to the biological weakness of humans, culture became a necessary defense mechanism and a form of protection. Culture became a unique way for humans to adapt. Despite the obvious physical weakness of humans, through culture we have rose to be the dominant species.

When we where done with dinner. Modesto called the people of the house to come eat. I walked into the dining room to serve their food to them.

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

Orangutan was the primate I decided to select for this primate observation. The monkey was enclosed in a large cage with two other monkeys (same species). It seem to be comfortable and unbothered of its surroundings. The monkey was just sitting observing everything around them, for example us the visitors. These primates are known to be unique thinkers. They are very quiet than other primates, patient, and problem solvers. The staff from the Los Angeles Zoo, provides a variety of enrichment through diet, I noticed a staff giving the monkeys vegetables: carrots, lettuce, and other that I didn’t quite notice. Being able to observe the lives of the Orangutans enclosed in the zoo, are very different

As I walked into the first room at the Museum of Photographic Arts, Jim Naughten's "Animal Kingdom" photographs drew my immediate attention because I am currently taking a lab course in Physical Anthropology where we look at fossils every week. While there were several photos within his exhibit, I will focus on the image “Red Faced Spider Monkey” (2014) since we are studying spider monkeys in my course this week this image parallels with my current studies. Naughten uses the technique of Stereoscopy, the study of binocular vision. At the museum they provide a stereoscopic viewer for visitor use. While using the viewer, the flat images, then become three-dimensional bringing them to seem lifelike. Naughten's images are a wonderful example of how photography image can have transformative effects.

It was a pretty normal day, till dinner. After we had dinner, I went and checked if we had any Fireworks left from last year In the closet.

Additionally, the attainable range of shoulder mobility relative to over-all body size has an impact upon the fore-limb reaching that occurs over the course of a diagonal sequence gait. Squirrel monkeys, which display a more upright limb posture relative to other arboreal quadrupeds, do not have the ability to achieve extensive shoulder mobility (Schmidt 2005; Whitehead and Larson 1994). Compared to Cercopithecids, including rhesus macaques, however, squirrel monkeys possess an increasingly mobile proximal humerus joint, for they must create torque and movement around limited support axes (Nakatsukasa 1994; Schmidt 2005:366). The articular proportions between species (see Appendix IV), however, do not initially appear to reflect that difference in shoulder mobility, for the rhesus macaque specimens possess a greater mass / humeral head surface area compared to the squirrel monkey (see Figure 4). This initial variation reflects Cheng and Scott’s (2000) investigation, which highlighted a larger proximal humerus in terrestrial macaques necessary for the ability to reach forward, to the extent that Cercopthecids are able, and subsequently move the body across a flat surface (Cheng and Scott 2000).

The new facility provided an increased provision of enrichment toys. They also changed the weaning period to 9-12 months. 40% of the macaques were moved from the cages, so the majority of animals had more room than needed. (Wolfensohn, 2003). The macaques were kept indoors but with no natural daylight. They were only provided fluorescent light bulbs that were needing to be changed with daylight tubes. However, this was forgotten in the new facility. A problem then emerged once again in 1999 with five juvenile males (Wolfensohn, 2003). Each of these males had bowed tibia, fibula, radius, and ulna, enlarged epiphyses ( ending of the bone structure), they were reluctant to climb and jump, and had growth depression. Three were considered to be too severely affected to receive treatment, and could no longer be kept as a breeding or experimental animals.They were euthanized after receiving blood samples and their tissue was harvested for experiments. Oral calcium was then used to treat the other two. This was presented as hard boiled eggs and pet cal tablets (calcium phosphate) (Wolfensohn, 2003). They were removed from the rest of the colony for daily feeding and were observed to see if they took the adequate amounts, lasting for six

Went to feed the Stingrays and one of the four sharks.  It was a lot of fun and I got soaked.  At one point they all ganged up on me and wanted the piece of shrimp that was in my hand.  I also got to see the quarantined Blue-spotted rays.  There are three males.  The Keeper said she wished that they had a female for breeding, but they are not going to get one yet.  I asked a few questions about the rays.

Common squirrel monkeys feed on things found in nature and are prey of wildlife in the area. They are omnivores, food from both plants and animals. They eat insects, fruit, berries, flowers, and nectar. The monkeys get most of their water from food but sometimes find it in holes in trees and puddles on the ground. Predators of the monkey are snakes, wild cats, and birds. They mark their territory by rubbing their body and tail in their own urine.

When I got home I stuffed my face with chocolate because I deserve it. Plus when I got home my dad stopped over and gave me a gift ( they are divorced ) then i went to my grandma's house i gave her a new heart shaped pan to make shaped things.

When we were finished, we went out with my in-laws and enjoyed coffee and pie and reminisced on what we

Squirrels are everywhere, see figure 1 for an example of the grey squirrels in our area. They skitter through trees above heads, forage in trashcans, and chew through wires. Squirrels are so common the average person could easily overlook their importance. Squirrels have played a significant role in the evolution of seed defenses in pine trees. The evolution of these seed defenses is frequently attributed to birds and other seed predators (Benkman 1994). The ever-present unnoticed squirrel is actually uniquely designed to prey upon pines and pines in turn have developed traits to defend against them. Benkman et al discussed this in a paper on limber pine tree dispersal. Their study argues that while Clark’s nutcracker may play an important role in seed dispersal squirrels were actually the most important seed predator. The study showed that the pine trees adaptations made to defend against squirrels decreased the efficiency of other seed predators. They set out to prove that squirrels were the apex seed predator (Benkman 1994 1). This paper will outline some of the research that has been put together to map out the coevolution of squirrels and pine trees.