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Prosimians
Non-Human Primates
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
10/29/2010

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Kleiber's Rule
Definition
Higher body weight and higher metabolic rate
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Prosimians and Anthropoids
Definition
2 Sub-Orders of Order Primates
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Prosimians
Definition
pre-apes
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Anthropoids
Definition
monkeys, apes, and humans
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Areas of occupation of Primates
Definition
Low-altitude tropical or subtropical forest environments in Africa, Asia, and America.
high altitudes in Africa, Nepal, and Japan
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heterodont
Definition
many forms of teeth
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Primate diet
Definition
frugivores, folivores, insectivores, gumnivores, and omnivores
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Infraorder Strepsirhini
Definition
moist nose, open nostrils, rhinarium, includes prosimians
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Infraorder Haplorhini
Definition
Closed upper lip, sometimes hair, closed nostril
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rhinarium
Definition
reference to the nose
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Families of Prosimians
Definition
Lemuridae, Indridae, Daubentoniidae, Lorisidae, Tarsiidae, Galagidae, Cheirogaleidae
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arboreal
Definition
live in trees
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Toothcomb and grooming claw on 2nd pedal digit
Definition
2 unique features of prosimians
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Family Lemuridae
Definition
Madagascar, dichromatic and polychromatic
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Family Hapalemur
Definition
Eat toxic bamboo shoots
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Ring-tail lemur
Definition
terrestrial, frugivore, folivore, diurnal, multimale, multifemale
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Family Lepilemur
Definition
Nocturnal, folivore, frugivore, dichromatic, polychromatic, cudpad, caecotroph
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Family Indriidae
Definition
Found in madagascar, diurnal, arboreal, frugivore, folivore, vertical clinger and leaper, round skull, and deep face
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Family Indriidae
Definition
Extremely long hind limbs, hindlimb dominant locomotion, 4-tooth toothcomb, monogamous
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Family Daubentoniadae (Aye-Aye)
Definition
Found in Madagascar,tapetum, no tooth-comb, interior incisor, which is used for digging
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tapetum
Definition
very good night vision
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Family Daubentoniadae
Definition
Big ears, Elongated third digit, nails compressed into claw-like structure
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Family Cheirogaleidae
Definition
Mouse lemur, elongated ankle, stores some carbohydrates in tail and hind legs, leapers
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Family Galagidae
Definition
Pneumaticized mastoid region
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Family Lorisiidae
Definition
Lorises, Lack tail, slow-moving, reduced second digit, cautious climbers
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Family Tarsiidae
Definition
nocturnal and cryptic, carnivorous,some social, some solitary, hunts understory of forest, vertical clinger
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Family Tarsiidae
Definition
lacks tapetum, lacks rhinarium, largest eyes relative to body size, third digit is grooming claw
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haplorhine
Definition
closed nostrils, closed upper lips no rhinarium
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Family Tarsiidae
Definition
haplorhine, tail longer than its body, scales on tail and aerole, hemochorial placentation with bicornuate uterus
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hemochorial placentation
Definition
placenta fed by mother
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Systematist's Debate for Tarsiidae to be Prosimians
Definition
grooming claw, prosimian-like in skeletal structure, bi-cornuate uterus
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Systematist's Debate for Tarsiidae to be Anthropoids
Definition
They Are haplorhine, lacks baculum, hemochorial placentation, lacks tapetum
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baculum
Definition
penis bone
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