Primates Summer 2002 Quiz # 10 open book

Four point matching, each answer is used once:

plesiadapiforms                  gigantopithecus                  victoriapithecus                  omomyids

                                adapids                   aegyptopithecus                 proconsul                tree shrew

1. These specialized Paleocene animals are no longer considered to be primates ___________

2. This extant animal is also no longer considered a primate, but it may be a good structural model for the as-yet\-undiscovered earliest primates. ______________

3. This Eocene group are seen as ancestral to lemurs and lorises ______________

4. This Eocene group is seen as ancestral to haplorhines _______________

5. Not a monkey, not an ape, just an ancestral 2.1.2.3 catarrhine ________________

6. Earliest known cercopithecoid primate ________________

7. This Miocene ape was found in a fossilized tree cavity __________________

8. Largest of all primates, it may have survived for millions of years in Asia. _____________

Four points. Describe the social organization of the gorilla; include how these troops are actually the least stable and long-lasting of any apes.

Panids

Two points: What is the “predation hypothesis” for the origin of primates (Cartmill)?

Name _____________________________

BONUS: What is the rarest subspecies of gorilla (about 600 left, all in wild)? _______________

Which subspecies lives in Rwanda? ______________