Anthropology Primates quiz # 4 open notes, closed books Summer 2002 Dr Bob Mucci

1. Lemurs live only on the islands of _____________ and ________________

2. How and why are there so many different kinds of lemurs all in that one small area?

3. Primates with very small body size tend to eat:

A. Insects               B. Leaves               C. Fruit                   D. An omnivorous diet E. Gum

3a. Within each group of primates, the genera with the largest body size tend to eat:

A. Insects               B. Leaves               C. Fruit                   D. An omnivorous diet E. Gum

4. Lemur family matching (each will be used once):                    Daubentoniidae 

          Lemuridae              Cheirogaleidae                            Indridae                             Megalidapidae

_______________ includes only the aye-aye

_______________ includes the “true lemurs”

_______________ includes the lemurs that are the most similar to the galagos

_______________ includes the largest extant lemurs

_______________ includes only the sportive lemur

5. Lemur genera matching (each will be used once):        Phaner         Varecia        Hapalemur 

                     Propithecus                      Indri             Eulemur                            Microcebus

_______________ sifakas

_______________ bamboo lemurs

_______________ ruffed lemurs

_______________ indri

_______________ fork-marked lemur

_______________ brown lemur, black lemur

_______________ mouse lemurs 

6. Describe the arboreal and terrestrial locomotion of the sifaka

7. What do ring tails do with their tails?

8/9/10 QUICKIES:

: name the lemur that eats a poisonous food item; what is toxic about it?

: name the lemur that loses its upper incisors as an adult.

: name the lemur that stores fat in its tail for “hibernation”

: what is the Latin name of the ring-tail species?

: what do bamboo lemurs eat?

: name a diurnal, terrestrial lemur

: name the smallest primate

: what is the difference between CATHEMERAL and CREPUSCULAR?

PRINT NAME ___________________________

BONUS Q: discuss what is so unusual about the Aye-aye.