Anthropology Primates quiz # 5 OPEN books and notes Summer 2002 Dr Bob Mucci

1. Match the genus:         Saguinus                Callithrix                 Callimico      Leontopithecus

______________________ The “lion” tamarins

______________________ the common tamarins

______________________ Goeldi’s monkey

______________________ marmosets

2. The four genera above all belong to the SUBFAMILY:

A. Callitrichids                   B. Callitrichines                 C. Callithricids                    D. Cebinae

3. Describe the general anatomical and social characteristics of this subfamily:

body size:

hands and nails:

tooth count formula:

locomotion and posture:

food, feeding, range:

social organization and reproduction:

6. Callimico is the oddball genus in this subfamily, it is quite different and many think it resembles the ancestral species of the group; what are the differences?

8. The obvious difference between marmosets and tamarins is that marmosets have large strong canine-like lower incisors; how do they use them? (What do they do that the tamarins have trouble doing?)

9. What is the common explanation of why many of these species have striking markings in the forms of white or colored tufts of fur, moustaches, etc.?

10. What do we mean by the term “convergent” (or parallel) evolution?

PRINT NAME ___________________________

BONUS Q: “Neotropical” means __________________________________

Which neotropical primate had its wild population increased by the release of hundreds of zoo-bred animals? _____________________________