Summer II 2000 PRIMATES QUIZ #5 OPEN BOOK PRINT NAME AT THE BOTTOM ONLY
Circle the one best answer: feel free to write any comments about questions & answers
1. Lemurs live only on the island of Madagascar, and the nearby
Komodo Islands coast of Africa Comoros Islands Seychelles Islands
2. Which is FALSE about the subfossil lemurs?
A. Many of them were larger than any extant lemurs
B. Many of them were most closely related to the sportive lemur
C. Some occupied econiches that in Africa belong to catarrhines
D. Their disappearance is blamed mostly on human destruction of habitat
E. Their disappearance is blamed mostly on human hunting
Fill in the name of the family and genus/species: (1/2 point each)
Family Genus/species
The smallest primates belong to _________ ____________________
The hibernating primates belong to _________ ____________________
The lemur with the mask around its eyes _________ ____________________
The “woodpecker” lemur _________ ____________________
The lemur with female dominance _________ ____________________
The lemur that thrives on cyanide _________ ____________________
The lemur that eats its own feces _________ ____________________
The lemur with no upper incisors _________ ____________________
The lemur with almost no tail (and only 30 teeth) _________ ____________________
The lemur with only 18 teeth total – but four are huge _________ ____________________
The largest living lemur _________ ____________________
The biggest brain (in proportion) _________ ____________________
2 point essay: There are six families of lemurs; list them, and for each write a short sentence that would help children learn to distinguish one family from another.
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PRINT YOUR NAME ____________________
Bonus question: What anatomical feature characterizes the lemurs that specialize A. in nectar? B. in gum?