Anthropology Primates quiz # 4 open notes, open books Summer 2004 Dr Bob Mucci

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

2. Nocturnal means active at night;

what term means “active at dawn and dusk”? ________________

what term means active at various times, day and night? _____________________

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

4. How and why did many lemurs go extinct in the last few thousand years?

5. Some people think that lemuriformes and lorisiformes are not two distinct, monophyletic clades; which family of lemurs is most like a family of lorioids?

6. What are the characteristics of these two groups (in # 5) that suggest they might be closely related?

4 points Identify the lemur (any Lemuriformes) by genus and species:

________________________________ is the smallest primate

________________________________ is the only lemur that loses its upper incisors

________________________________ is cryptic in coloration

________________________________ occupies the woodpecker econiche

________________________________ is the largest lemur

________________________________ hibernates, sort of

________________________________ consumes significant amounts of cyanide

________________________________ has rodent-like incisors

________________________________ is one in which the vulvas seal up and the testes shrink in the time between breeding seasons 

PRINT NAME ___________________________

BONUS Q: discuss “baby parking”