Summer II 2004 PRIMATES QUIZ #7 OPEN NOTES, CLOSED BOOK

1. Which is the name of the only superfamily of Old World Monkeys? (Circle one)

Ceboidea                           Cebidae                             Cebinae 

          Cercopithecoidea               Cercopithecidae                 Cercopithecinae

                                Coloboidea                         Colobidae                           Colobinae

2/3/4. Using the common or Latin name, which of the leaf-eating monkeys we studied fits in each blank? 

_______________ is the one with the short tail                      ________________ has the big nose

_______________ is one that lives a mile or more above sea level

_______________ was hunted almost to extinction a century ago for its fur coat

_______________ is mentioned in a field study in Falk as sitting in ponds eating sodium-rich plants

_______________ is the Asian monkey that lives over the largest geographical and environmentally varied region

_______________ looks like it is wearing lipstick in the color pictures in both textbooks

_______________ eats mostly lichen

Name any monkey that lives only on islands, not on a mainland of a continent ______________

_______________ practices infanticide

_______________ is commonly called a “leaf monkey” not a “langur”

5/6 The genera of Old World Monkeys as listed in Falk are:

Colobus                  Procolobus (Includes Piliocolobus)

Nasalis                   Semnopithicus                 Presbytis                Simias           

Pygathrix (includes Rhinopithecus)               Trachypithecus (includes Kasi)

Which two genera live in Africa? _______________ _____________________

Which genus is the Sacred Monkey of India? ___________________________

Which genus is the proboscis monkey? __________________________

Which other genus have snub-noses? ____________________

Which genus has several species living in China more than a mile above sea level? ________________

Which genus includes the pig-tailed langur? ______________________

Which genus includes the smallest of them all, the monogamous/bigamous one, that mouth carries babies and has a noticeable sagittal crest? _____________________

7 Describe four ways that catarrhines are different from platyrrhines

8/9. The subfamily of leaf eating monkeys have several adaptive specializations for that particular diet; describe them, including skull and teeth, digestive system, hands, and behavior.

10 Which are smarter, leaf eating monkeys or cheek pouch monkeys? Give some evidence.

PRINT YOUR NAME ____________________

If a troop is patrilineal, what can you say about patterns of blood relations and of migration?