Primates mid-term Open Book & Notes 2004 Two hour time limit (not including today’s quiz)
30 pts of trivia questions: FILL IN AS REQUIRED:
(Common names for species are OK unless it specifies Latin name)
1. What level of taxa have names that end in -IDEA? ___________
2. What is the name of the big island just south of the Comoros? __________
3. Which monkey is most closely related to the Squirrel monkey? _______________
4. Which primate species is famous for stink fights? (Latin name) _____________
5. Which is the “woodpecker” primate? _____________
6. Which is the “owl” primate? ______________________
7. Which is only the primate found in the Phillippines? _____________
8. Name a primate that eats poisonous plants ________________
9. Name a primate that eats poisonous insects _______________
10. Which is the largest nocturnal primate? _________________
11. Which is the smallest primate? ___________________
12. Which is the largest extant primate in Madagascar? _____________
13. Which is the smallest monkey? _____________
14. Which is the only nocturnal anthropoid? ______________
15. What primate is native to Australia? __________________
16. What is another name for the Muriqui? ____________
17. Which primate has hardly any index finger: _________
18. Which primate has hardly any (or no) thumb? __________________
19. Which primate has the long skinny middle finger _________
20. Which is a prosimian but not a strepsirhine ______
21. Which primate is big and white and hops bipedally when on the ground ____________________
22. Which is the organ grinder monkey ____________
23. Which primate has the largest body size in the wild? ________________
24. Which is the primate with the sharp bony spines on the back of its neck? __________
25. Primate genus with the smallest number of adult teeth? ______________
26. Primate with a very low IM? _________________
27. Primate with a very high IM? ______________________
28. Which primate has a brain smaller than one of its eyeballs? _________________
29. Which primate has the biggest testicles? _______________
30. Which primate lives in a forest above a flooded area? _________
16 pts of terms: FILL IN AS REQUIRED:
1. Term for two species living in the same geographical area _______________
2. Term for being active at dawn and dusk _______________
3. Term for other females sharing the duties of the mother _________________
4. Term for risking your life to save the others ____________
5. Term for suborder of lemurs and lorises but not tarsiers _____________
6. Term for the study of size and scaling among animals _____________
7. Opposite of EXTINCT: ____________________
8. Term for any feature or behavior that conceals an animal from its predators or prey __________
9. Term for an ancestral species and all its descendants ______________
10. Term for two similar species evolving in the same genera direction of adaptation ____________
11. Term for two quite different species coming to resemble each other due to adaptations to similar econiches ________
12. The bone of the penis ___________________
13. A physical location on Earth, and also the dietary adaptations, daily activity patterns, mating behaviors, and physical attributes that adapt a species to a particular way of life: _________________
14. The infraorder of Neotropical primates is _______________
15. Neotropical primates are all in danger of extinction because all of them are ______________
16. Animals that cannot interbreed and produce fully fertile offspring are said to belong to different __________
2 pts What does it mean to say a monkey is Machiavellian?
2 pts What does it mean to say a female is Coy?
PRINT YOUR NAME ______________________
The Essays:
An essay should give the BACKGROUND and set the CONTEXT of what you are discussing; it should tell the COMPLETE STORY and include DETAILS and EXAMPLES, as if you are EXPLAINING the topic to someone who is not familiar with the course material, such as an intelligent friend (some people begin essays by closing their eyes and pretending they are TALKING to someone).
An essay should discuss the EVIDENCE and its INTERPRETATION; and consider DIFFERENT interpretations of that evidence.
Do not write out the question. Use THE QUESTION NUMBER to indicate which questions you are answering at the beginning of your answer, and circle the number of the questions you choose on this sheet as well.
As a rough guide, the essay should fill three or four pages with relevant material. It's easy to get some partial credit, but only an excellent and complete essay gets full points. If you have trouble starting, write some key words, make an outline, and review the suggestions at the top.
HINT: Don't choose a question just because you think that it's EASY; you might not KNOW enough about that topic to write a good essay.
50 point essay; answer either # 1 or # 2:
1. Write an essay on parallelism and convergences in different groups of primates; consider specific cases, such as specializations for exudates, dwarfism, etc., and general patterns of similar adaptive radiations. Name example animals, give details of teeth and feeding patterns, limbs and locomotion, etc.
2. What are the different forms of social organization (residence patterns) found among primates? How do they correspond to varying amounts of basic sexual dimorphism in various kinds of primates? What other explanations are there for sexual dimorphism? Discuss.
20 point essay; answer any one from below, or you may answer the other one above.
3. Discuss the possibility of Callimico as being like the ancestor of all Callitrichines (or even all NWM); you will have to talk about Callitrichines as having become dwarfs.
4. Social life; what are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a social group (as opposed to alone)? Also discuss shared parenting, kin selection, and infanticide.
5. Anatomical and behavioral differences among primates:
List and explain eight general characteristics that help to distinguish primates from other mammals.
Then discuss the general and detailed differences between prosimians and anthropoids; describe how tarsiers are intermediate.
6. You are writing a children’s book about primates; for the chapter on Prosimians, give a simple description that characterizes each of the eight families, and points out how each family is unique.
Families:
Cheirogalids Lemurids Indrids Daubentoniids
Megalidapids Lorids Galagonids Tarsiids
7. You are writing a children’s book about primates; for the chapter on New World Monkeys, give a simple description that characterizes each of the five subfamilies, and points out how each subfamily is unique.
Subfamilies:
Callitrichines Cebines Aotines Pithecines Atelines