Frequently repeated Primates

describe their characteristics

Tarsiers

Class: tarsiers (they got their own class cause they evolved along a seperate lineage than anthropoids)

• Nocturnal

• faunivore

• veritcal clinging and leaping

• big ass eyes

Loris

Class: Strepsirrhine

• nocturnal primate

• They are slow and stealthy

• mainly eating fruit and insects

Capuchin-cebus

Class: Cebidae

• Relatively large and dexterous platyrrhine

• arboreal quadruped with a prehensile tail, mainly used during feeding.

• sexually dimorphic in body mass

Tamarin—Saguinus and Leontopithecus

class: cebidae

• Small-bodied monkey with relatively long trunk, legs, and tail.

• Eats fruit, insects, and exudates but lacks specialized gouging incisors.

Colobus Monkey

Class: Colobine

• Mainly leaf eating:

  • Black an white colobus mainly eat mature leaves and seeds

  • red colobus prefer young leaves, and fruit a lil bit

Langurs and leaf monkeys

Class: Colobine

• Primarily Asian leaf-eating monkeys

• long limbs and tails, with quadrupedal locomotion with leaping

• Coloration, habitat, diet, and social organization vary ( kinda like cline)

Gorilla

Class: Catarrhine-ape

• Largest living primate with extreme sexual dimorphism

• Quadrupedal knuckle-walker that eats leaves and fruit

• Lowland gorillas are more arboreal

Chimpanzee-pan

Class: Catarrhine-ape

• Arboreal and terrestrial knuckle-walker

• Fission–fusion social organization

• Eats mainly fruit and nuts but also leaves, insects, and hunted vertebrates

• Repeatedly associated with tool use, termite fishing, and hunting.

Orangutan—Pongo

Class: Catarrhine—ape

• Largest living Asian ape

• extremely arboreal, solitary, and strongly sexually dimorphic.

• Adult males may occur in dramatically different flanged and unflanged forms.