University Of Arizona - ANTH 364 Anthr 364 Exam 2 Study Guide Standford 164 - 170. All Questions and Answers

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University Of Arizona - ANTH 364Anthr 364 Exam 2 Study Guide Standford 164 - 170 1. In which geographical regions do Strepsirhine primates live (choose all that apply) 2. True or false: noc... turnal strepsirhines are all solitary (non-group-living) 3. Which of the following is accurate about the island of Madagascar (choose all that apply) Question options: A: • There have been periods of gene flow between the lemurs on Madagascar and primates on continental Africa since Madagascar broke away from continental Africa 4. What is a subfossil? 5. True or false: there used to be large, bear-like lemurs that walked around on the ground, and slow, sloth-like lemurs that hung upside down. 6. Match the Lemur Latin family name to the common name(s) for that family A: • Dwarf Lemurs - Cheirogaleidae • True Lemurs - Lemuridae 7. Match the characteristics to the correct lemur family. A: • Dwarf Lemurs - small, nocturnal, eat insects and fruit, dull-colored, live in small clusters or loosely associated pairs • True Lemurs – many species are diurnal and social, living in monkey-like groups. Females are dominant to males in many species 8. Match the characteristic with the correct type of primate (lorises or galagos or both) A: • Lorises - found in Africa and Asia, Slow Moving, Stanford 171- 175 1. Which of the following are considered haplorhines (members of the suborder Haplorhini)? (choose all that apply) A: • Apes • New World Monkeys 2. True or false: the bony plate at the back of the eye socket, present in haplorhines, is probably an ancestral trait relative to the time when all primates shared a common ancestor? 3. Relative to strepsirhine primates, haplorhine primates rely more heavily on: 4. True or false: almost all hapolorhine primates are diurnal (active during the day)? 5. True or false: almost all haplorhine primates live in social groups (as opposed to being solitary)? 6. Tarsiers inhabit a niche that is similar to that of: 7. The common name for the infraorder Platyrrhini is: 8. Which of the following is NOT true about New World monkeys? Question options: 9. Which of the four platyrrhine families do the following traits describe? -smallest body size (among the NWMs) -claws instead of nails -commonly give birth to twins -some species have polyandrous mating systems Boinski Chpt 25 Reading Activity: 1. Within the Costa Rican, Corcovado population of squirrel monkeys, which sex pursued mating opportunities more actively? 2. Mating activity within the Corcovado squirrel monkeys: 3. Within the Corcovado squirrel monkey population, births occur: 4. T/F: two- three months before the breeding season, adult male squirrel monkeys in Corcovado fill up with water, increasing their size by up to 25%. 5. The size increase experienced by adult monkeys in Corcovado, Costa Rica is associated with which of the following: 6. Which of the following modes of sexual selection seems to be driving the pattern of male enlargement during the breeding season in male squirrel monkeys in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica? 7. T/F: the squirrel monkey groups in Corcovado have obvious dominance hierarchies and a lot of competition over food resources 8. Squirrel monkeys are: 9. Which of the following is NOT accurate about the Corcovado squirrel monkey ecological niche? 10. T/F: Boinski hypothesizes that the strong seasonality/synchrony in matings and births in squirrel monkeys in Corcovado is a method to decrease predation risks for infants by birds of prey? 11. T/F: Adult male squirrel monkeys in Corcovado frequently and aggressively defend and retrieve infants and subadults from potential predators? Stanford et al. 175-177 OWMs 1. Which of the following types of primates are included in the infraorder Catarrhini? 2. Catarrhini translates into with: 3. Where do Old World monkeys live? 4. Which of the following is NOT a trait shared by many or all Old World monkeys? 5. Match the characteristic with the correct subfamily of Cercopithecidae: A: Cercopithecines: Colobines: Primate Locomotion Reading 1. The diagonal couplet gait of primates leaves how many limbs off a substrate at a time during locomotion? 2. Primate locomotion is controlled mostly by the: 3. Which of the following is not accurate about the relationship between body size and locomotion? 4.Which of the following is not a style of locomotion utilized by primates? (answers based on this reading and other sources that you have been exposed to in this class) 5. Which of the following is NOT a feature in primates that aids in grasping? 6. To which of the following behaviors has the evolution of claw-like nails in primates such as the callitichines, Phaner, and Euoticus, been linked? 7. Primates who move around primarily quadrupedally while in the trees tend to have: 8.How many time has the arm-swinging/arm-hanging form of locomotion evolved in primates? 9. Which group of primates tend to have greatly reduced mobility throughout their limbs? 10. Which of the following is not accurate about the bodies of brachiating apes? 1. Match the type of ape with the correct family Gorilla:2 Orangutan:2 Lesser apes:1 Great apes:2 Chimpanzees 2: Bonobos:2 Gibbons:1 2. The rotating shoulder morphology found in modern humans is a _________ trait relative to the time we shared an ancestor with the other great apes? 3. A rotating shoulder joint was initially selected for in order to enable 4. The reading (Stanford et al. 178-186) states that "the four great apes move about by a modified form of quadrupedalism called knuckle-walking." The great apes use this style of locomotion when moving 5.Which of the following is NOT true about gibbons? 6. Currently researchers believe (favor the hypothesis) that gibbons form socially monogamous pair bonds because 7. Which of the following does not characterize orangutans? 8. True or false: orangutans are more social when there is a lot of fruit available at any particular time? 9.Which of the following is NOT accurate about gorillas? 10.Which of the following is NOT accurate about chimpanzees? 11.Which of the following is NOT true about bonobos [Show More]

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