1.Bush babies live in the forested and bush counties of Africa south of the Sahara. Their series also extends to some nearby islands, including Zanzibar. 2.Calago babies are well-adapted to living in drier zones. They usually live in the savannah woodlands south of the Sahara and are left out only from the southern tip of Africa. Like forest rain forest and scrub forest. 3.Body mass for 109 primate species. For 23 species with sample sizes of nine or more for each sex, dimorphism (male/female ratio) in neonatal body mass range from 0.94 in Galago senegalensis 1.19 in Pongo pygmaeus. Dimorphism in neonatal body mass was absolutely connected both with adult body mass and with dimorphism in adult body mass, but the obvious relationship with adult …show more content…
Galago generally have one or two young per litter (hardly 3) which are born from April to November after a development period of 110 to 120 days. Young babies generally nurse for about three and a half months, while they can eat solid food at the end of the first month. Bush babies generally have one or two young per litter (rarely 3) which are born from April to November after a gestation period of 110 to 120 days. Communication in all galagos involves a variety of modalities. Visual communication, such as body posture, is used between conspecifics. These animals are also known to have a variety of facial expressions to communicate emotional states, such as aggression, connection, and fear. Urinating on hands before walking, while improving grip, also allows the animals to mark their territories with scents. Tactile communication, in play, aggression, and grooming, is an important part of the lives of bush babies. Tactile communication is especially important between a mother and her offspring, as well as between mates. 6. Their favorite food is grasshoppers, but they will also eat small birds, eggs, fruits, seeds and flowers. They mostly feed on insects during the rainy seasons, but during drought they feed exclusively on the gum that flows out of some of the trees in the acacia-dominated forests.so Their food is birds; eggs; insect’s seeds, grains, and nuts; fruit; flowers; sap or other plant fluids and their primary diet is
They have wide chests and their arms are longer than their legs. Chimpanzees’ hands have four long fingers plus an opposable thumb. Their feet have five toes which includes an opposable big toe. Chimpanzees’ can grasp things with both their hands and their feet. Male chimpanzees are larger than female chimpanzees and are slightly sexually dimorphic. Chimpanzees are quadrupeds that typically walk using the soles of feet and the knuckles of their hands. They sometimes walk upright only when they need to use their arms to carry things but this is a rare occurrence. Chimps are also good at brachiating and climbing trees which is where they spend most of their time even when they sleep. Their dental formula is 2.1.2.3. Chimpanzees’ have y5/x4 molars, making them frugivores, and a diastema to fit their upper canines. Their diet includes fruit, leaves, flowers, seeds, smaller mammals, birds, insects, and grubs. When chimps aren’t resting, they can be very active. I enjoyed watching the Chimpanzees’ swing on the ropes and climb up and down the trees. Chimpanzees are
the plant life in the forest. A large portion of the Shoshone's diet is plant
In the film Babies there are four babies from four different cultural backgrounds, languages and socioeconomic statuses. While each babies’ development is different, they have one thing in common, they nurtured by those around them. The first baby is Ponijao who is the youngest of nine children from the village of Namibia, South Africa; baby Baya from Mongolia, East Asia; Hattie Bradshaw from San Francisco, California in the United States, and Mari from Tokyo, Japan.
5.) Primates and all mammals share a series of characteristics such as: body hair, long gestation and live birth, mammary glands, different types of teeth, ability to maintain a constant body temperature, increased brain size and a considerable capacity for learning. Scientists created a special order called primates, because they share many characteristics unique to their order: a tendency toward erect posture, a flexible, generalized limb structure, hands and feet w/ a high degree of apprehensibility, retention of 5 digits on hands and feet, an opposable thumb, nails instead
one time, they lived all across Africa, but are now extinct in northern and southern
Much of the debate over whether species should be separated into different groups arises from the morphological differences between individuals of the same species. For example, Australopithecus Afarensis fossils express high sexual dimorphism, which proposes two individual species (Reno et al., 2003). While Australopithecus Africanus, in comparison, shows more realistic size ratios between males and females suggesting one species (Lockwood, 1999). A study performed by Richmond and Jungers looked at the size variation in Australopithecus Afarensis compared to living hominoids to answer the following question: whether it is possible to see such high differences in size between genders of the same species or whether it makes more sense to divide the species into two (1995). In this study, a conclusion of two separate species for the Australopithecus Afarensis was made based on comparisons of fossils such as the humorous and femur with modern gorillas (Richmond & Jungers, 1995). This study compared the size of postcranial fossils. While most of the research has focused on making interpretations based on only cranial fossils, research by Harmon agrees that by looking at postcranial evidence we can gain better insight into the real variations between and within species (2009). Most research assumes high dimorphism wi...
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Each of the babies could be classified into one of Chess and Thomas’ categories of temperament. First, Ponijao could be considered an easy baby since she is usually in an upbeat mood. She enjoys playing with others, she is curious, and she is happy to explore on her own. An example of this is when she crawls through the mud puddle just because she wanted to. Next, Bayar seems like a slow-to-warm-up baby. He is very tolerant of his surroundings, including his older brother and all the farm animals that live around him. In one scene of the film, a rooster jumps into his bed and walks around, but Bayar does not even seem to care. He is not very active and is content just being alone, and he rarely gets upset but also rarely gets very excited by anything. Finally, both Mari and Hattie seem like difficult babies. Mari seems to cry more often than not. She throws a massive tantrum when she cannot complete the puzzle and cries loudly when she sees a zoo animal. Hattie is less irritable but still presents many challenges to her parents. She seems to dislike any change and desires to be more independent. She tries to feed herself well before other babies try to do the same. During a class with her parents, when they are in the middle of singing a song, she just gets up and walks to the door as if she is ready to leave. Babies presents temperament as influenced mostly by nature, but it is possible that nurture is a
Babies is a Documentary produced by Thomas Balmes who originally got the idea from Alain Chabat. It is set in the present time in four different countries and four very different settings. These babies are documented from birth to just after one year and shows four different perspectives of how different cultures raise their children. From a tribe in Nambia, a remote location in Mongolia, a large city in Japan, to San Francisco California; babies is based on the common theme of human discovery, interaction, and love.
Though it is rare for a jellyfish to reproduce in captivity, it is not uncommon for jellyfish to reproduce in the wild. They are typically found in coastal waters of all zones, but mostly warm or tropical waters. They are even found in brackish water with as low a salt content as 0.6%. Their biomes are reefs, tropical coastal, and freshwater lakes. They are also found in both oceans and inshore seas. Jellyfish can withstand temperatures as low as -6 degrees Celsius and as high as 31 degr...
The physical characteristics of a gorilla are, the male may be from a height of 5.5 ft and a weight of about 400 lbs. The female can be as tall as 5 ft. and weight almost about half the weight of the male. Their skull is pretty much similar to ours, but their bones are thicker. The gorillas spin...
Cnidarians are found in the Mediterranean and in the oceans. They can live in the ocean as well as coastal waters. But the primary habitat for Cnidarians are in the open ocean. Jellyfish can live in any oceans. There are deep water and shallow water jellyfish. Certain jellyfish, such as the Pelagia Noctiluca, can live anywhere that the ocean currents decide to carry it ("Phyla Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, and Nematoda").
Even though, the children grew up in different environments, the stages of development they underwent were mostly the same. Whether it be in an environment not suitable for any person to live, as depicted by Ponijao’s family, or a well-kept home, as shown by Hattie’s family, the development stages were pretty much the same. Each toddler used their senses in order to gain information about the world around them. The major difference between the development of these four babies was the environment that they grew up in. For example, Hattie’s parents were constantly trying to teach their baby new and educational things. Her parents always read her books. In one book, she learned how to imitate the sounds and motions an elephant makes. Due to Ponijao’s environment, it was extremely difficult to learn the kinds of things Hattie was learning. In his environment, he didn’t even have any books or toys that could further his knowledge. His family was living in poverty. In the film Babies, many theories and concepts were conveyed by the four different families. It showed the stage of development a baby is at when they are less than one years old. The film proved that a person can be brought up in a city in America or third world country and still go through the same stages of development any child
Several kinds of baboons live in Africa and southwestern Arabia. These include the hamadryas baboon, which lives on plains and rocky hills of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and eastern Africa near the Red Sea, and the chacma baboon, which inhabits rocky regions and open woodlands in southern Africa. Olive baboons inhabit the Kekopey cattle ranch located near the town of Gilgil, Kenya. “The central part of the ranch consists of open grassland studded with occasional patches of bushy shrub, scattered thornbush, and small groves of giant fever trees” (Smuts 17). They eat a wide variety of foods including insects, flowers, leaves, fruits of bushes and herbs, and most significant of all, the grass itself. “Baboons eat the green blades of grass during the rainy seasons and dig for corms-the underground storage organ of sedge grasses-when the ranch is dry” (Smuts 17-18). They can carry food in pouches inside their cheeks.
The first major characteristic of chimpanzees is the physical description. Chimpanzees have a body adapted for living both in trees and on the ground. Their arms are longer than the legs and are much stronger than human’s arms. In addition, chimpanzees have longer fingers compared to human’s fingers. All of these features make chimpanzees spend most of their time climb and swing among trees (Beatty, Beer, Green, & Taylor, 2008). According to Mcdonald (2006), chimpanzees have brains that at 300-400cc (18-24cu in). Besides that, male chimpanzees are 10-20 percent larger than females and are considerably stronger. They also have larger canine teeth, which are their main weapons. Otherwise, males and females have similar body proportions. In addition, height of male chimpanzees is about 77-92cm, while female chimpanzees are about 70-85cm (Mcdonald, 2006). Beatty et al. (2008) state that weight of male chimpanzees is about 200 pounds (90kg), while female chimpanzees are about 176 pounds (80kg). Moreover, coat of chimpanzees are mainly black, but often turn to gray on back after 20 years.