Anthropology Primates quiz # 2 Summer 2002 Dr Bob Mucci

Print your name at the bottom only; circle the letter of the one best answer

1. . Three characteristics each found in at least some New World monkeys but NOT in any Old World monkeys are:

          a. Rump pads, coccyx instead of an external tail, estrus

          b. Cheek pouches, terrestrial locomotion, 2.1.2.3 dentition

          c. Ischial callosities, downward pointing noses, and sacculated stomachs.

          d. Flat noses with outward pointing nostrils, extra premolars, and prehensile tails.

          e. Eat meat, build nests in trees, have limp tails that always hang straight down.

2. The category Hominoids:

A. Is the name of a FAMILY                                         B. Is the name of a SUBFAMILY

C. Includes both Old World Monkeys and apes           D. Includes apes but not monkeys

E. Includes gorillas but not gibbons

3/4. Describe FOUR characteristics that distinguish Apes from Old World Monkeys

5. In one sentence, what was the author’s general point in the reading “Machiavellian Monkeys”?

6a. The twelve teeth in the very back of your mouth are all called ______________________

6b. Jane Goodall studied what kind of primates? __________________________

7. Define ESTRUS:

7a. Define SEXUAL DIMORPHISM:

FILL IN EACH BLANK WITH ONE ANIMAL FROM THIS LIST (some will be used more than once):

baboon        bonobo        gibbon         gorilla          common chimpanzee

________________ is the most terrestrial of the great apes

________________ is the best brachiator

________________ live in harems (one male troops) led by silverbacks

________________ is a monkey, not an ape

________________ is sometimes called “pygmy chimp” 

________________ is the most vegetarian of the great apes

________________ is the lesser ape, the hylobatid

________________ is the only great ape that lives outside of Africa

________________ is the ‘red ape’

________________ hunt monkeys to eat, and catch termites

________________ is the most arboreal of the great apes

________________ is the pair-bonded, monogamous ape

PRINT NAME ___________________________

BONUS QUESTION:

Why is it that practically all of the New World monkeys

(and also the Asian apes) are endangered, but only

a few of the Old World monkeys are?