Primate

Primate Social Groups Living in a society where monogamy is the most accepted and practiced form of relationships I had never considered that primates practice any specific relationships let alone more than one. Through research I have found that there are actually six different types of social groups that exist among primates. Those six groups are polygynous, polyandrous, multimale and multifemale, all male, monogamous, and solitary. All six of these primate societies can be found being…

What separates a human being from a primate? This is a question that has been debated for many years, and I believe that it is one that will likely never be resolved. While acknowledging that humans are technically primates, in this paper I will strictly refer to any non-human primate as a primate. One of the main arguments surrounding the difference in humans and primates is how, if at all, the cultures of the two are related. Meaning, how do primate-learning styles compare to human learning…

The primate species that I am studying is the Common Squirrel Monkey, also known as Saimiri sciureus. Squirrel monkeys are considered frugivorous and insectivorous, meaning they mainly consume fruits and insects. However, they mainly forage for insects, but in times when insects as scare, they turn to fruits. Examples of insects include orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets) and lepidopterans (moths, butterflies), while fruits include leguminosae (legumes) and sapotaceae (Lima and Ferrari,…

Female Primates have distinctive features, which differentiate them from other mammals. First off they have fewer offspring than the normal mammals and each birth is more spaced out over time and can be long as years in between births. Primates mother take tons on care of their young, they provide them food and teach them social behaviors and social roles. Primates are identified into six different residence patterns. First there is the One-male and multi-female, this group has one…

Primate parenting includes several distinct features that separate them from other mammals. One distinct feature is the length in time that primates care for their young. It is a significantly longer time period than most other mammals, giving the mother and offspring a very close bond. Another distinctive feature is the fact that without being raised by its own mother (and is instead raised by a surrogate), a primate offspring will enter adulthood with very little knowledge of how to properly…

The evolution of primate cone pigments raises interesting general questions in evolutionary genetics, and is reviewed extensively elsewhere (Jacobs, 1996, Nathans, 1999 and Surridge et al., 2003). Most mammals are dichromatic with L (long wavelength) and S (short wavelength) cone pigments, but Old-World monkeys (Catarrhini) and howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.) independently duplicated the single ancestral LWS/MWS gene, which is on the X-chromosome, to give separate LWS and MWS pigments. Pigment…

behavioral ways would be the similarities with humans and primates. Living different life styles would fall more towards the ape section of this essay because they have been living in wild life since they’ve been around, and communication skills would be more towards humans since we are more advanced in the way of us having the ability to communicate in various ways . Similarities humans and apes share are our behavioral ways. Such as how primates and humans say “no.” For example, an infant is…

The evolution of primates has brought up so much debate and discussion over the years. Scientists, still to this day, are conducting research and observing facts on how and why primates have evolved throughout time. The study of primate evolution dates back all the way to Charles Darwin’s time where he proposed the processes of natural selection which is a very slow but gradual procedure. Since the time of Darwin’s theory some “factors that have influenced or are currently shaping community…

important feature of primate parenting is how extensive their investment is in raising their children. Primate take great care of their offspring and expend a lot of energy and time raising them. This also goes along with the fact that primates mature fairly slowly, meaning more time is needed to care for them before they become independent/mature. This leads to primates being slow reproducers, taking longer before they're ready to have another child/children. Some primates also engage in…

Source 1: “Discovery of Oldest Primate Skeleton Helps Chart Early Evolution of Humans, Apes” This article was published by the American Museum of Natural History on June 5th, 2013. In this article, researchers have identified a fossil primate skeleton that could possibly be the oldest and smallest primate ever discovered. Experts found the fossil in the Hubei Province of China in the bottom of a former lake. It is estimated that the animal lived around 55 million years ago. Given the…