Exam 3: Living Primates

Among chimpanzees and bonobos, grooming serves all of the following purposes except:

Discuss the contributions that primatology has made to our understanding of what it means to be human.

What advantages does stereoscopic vision confer on primates?

How do primatologists define a "tool"?

Which Old World monkey is of special interest to paleoanthropologists because it lives in savannahs like those in which we expect ancestral humans may have lived?

A creature that is active at night is considered to be:

The sense of smell is vital for _______________ in their location of food sources.

What evolutionary advantages were associated with arboreal mammals?

Conservation efforts have had greatest success among all of the following species except:

Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons and siamangs are together considered to be _______________.

GG rubbing stands for:

Jane Goodall was the first to scientifically document what kind of behavior among chimpanzees?

The varied diet available to arboreal primates required specialized teeth.

The type of vision in which two eyes sit next to each other on the same plane so that their visual fields overlap, is called _______________ vision.

What did the field studies of Japanese primatologist Kinji Imanishi reveal about bonobos?

What statement best describes the role of ethics in field research of non-human primates?

Name three factors that work to restrict the size of ape populations in the wild.

Flexible and changing behavioral patterns among non-human primates interest scientists because they provide clues about:

Researchers at Gombe, Tanzania have found that annually chimpanzees kill what percentage of red colobus monkeys within their habitat?

Scientists argue that there is a _______________ evolutionary heritage between humans and apes.