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Question 21

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Where is the famous Fayum Depression? In

A) Kenya
B) central Africa
C) Egypt
D) Madagascar

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Primates initially became arboreal in order to:

A) escape predators
B) get to fruits and flowers on the ends of tree limbs
C) find insects
D) build nests

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Since arboreal monkeys have long tails and terrestrial ones have short stubby tails, scientists conclude having a tail is connected to maintaining balance in trees.

Relative to diet, the majority of primates are

The best hypothesis to explain why primates became arboreal is that they could eat insects in the trees.

Cathemereal primates are those who take short hibernations during the coldest part of their yearly cycle.

All apes have all of the following traits EXCEPT

The most complex form of socio-political structure known for any primate group except humans is the three-layered system of the hamadryas baboons.

Which of the following various ways of primate locomotion shows similar length of front and back limbs?

In this text, which of the following is NOT considered a suborder of Primates?

Differentiate between the two dental patterns in fossil and modern monkeys and apes. What would identify a particular tooth?

There are more primates in Kenya per square mile than anywhere else on Earth.

Sahelanthropous and Orronin are definitely early hominids.

Describe the three-tiered social/political system of the hamadryas baboons.

In general, nocturnal primates are relatively unsocial.

Humans have l0 fingernails but prosimians and tarsiers also have some "toilet claws."

Your text suggests there are over 250 species of primates alive today.

When would the first primate have been in existence?

One dental trait that identifies fossil and modern monkeys is their bilophodont molars.

Locomotion differs more for Primates than any other order. Write a sentence describing all you can with one example of a species for each mode.