Evanth midterm: primate features

Primate features include ….

• Grasping extremities: opposable thumb, big toe, nail instead oc law

• Brain size: large

• Visual features: improved at cost of nose

  • Develop stereoscopic vision, which enables depth and three dimensional perception

• Food: lots of fruit, also insects and leaves

• Territory: mostly arboreal, live in trees

• Relative to globe, living: equatorial

• Primates life history pattern: extended life history

  • Gestational period: long

  • Period of infant dependency: long

  • K selected (probability for surviving to adulthood): high