CK12 Life Science

Figure 14.18: This howler monkey shows adaptations for an arboreal existence. ( 9 ) Significance of Mammals Mammals are thought ...

Figure 14.19: A Labrador Retriever working as an assistance dog. ( 17 ) Ecologically, nectar-feeding and fruit-eating bats (Figu ...

Figure 14.20: Bats, like this Egyptian fruit bat, belong to another subgroup of placental mammals. Ecologically, fruit bats play ...

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Further Reading / Supplemental Links Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition. Random House, New York, 1998. http://en.wikipedia.o ...

14.3 Lesson 14.3: Primates and Humans Lesson Objectives List and describe general traits of primates. Summarize mating systems ...

Figure 14.21: A ring tailed lemur and twins. Lemurs belong to the prosimian group of primates. ( 22 ) Figure 14.22: One of the N ...

Figure 14.23: Chimpanzees, pictured here, belong to the great apes, one of the groups of primates. ( 27 ) cantsexual dimorphism, ...

Figure 14.24: Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man, belonging to an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens, humans, who are part of t ...

Figure 14.25: An Old World monkey, a species of macaque, in Malaysia. ( 21 ) Figure 14.26: A New World species of monkey, a tama ...

Figure 14.27: Another New World species of monkey, the common marmoset. ( 3 ) Figure 14.28: Baboons are partially terrestrial. P ...

Figure 14.29: A gibbon shows how its limbs are modified for hanging from trees. ( 5 ) Figure 14.30: A species of tarsier, with e ...

Primate Classification The primate order is divided informally into three main groupings: prosimians, New World monkeys, and Old ...

species, the males are, on average, larger and stronger than the females, although the degree of sexual dimorphism varies greatl ...

Figure 14.33: Tool using in a primate. A chimpanzee uses a stick to “fish” for termites, and then, pictured here, extracts the i ...

humans. The great apes have unique reproductive and parental care features, especially when compared with most other mammals. T ...

Points to Consider Forward-facing color binocular vision was useful for human ancestors who swung by their arms from one branch ...

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