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Callitrichidae
smaller new world monkeys - marmosets and tamarins - small - males and females look alike - twins common - juveniles help raise young.
Capuchin Monkeys
3-15 kg - single male groups - eat insects, birds, lizards, frogs don't groom or rest much.
Carnivorous
eating only meat. Animals that have this sort of diet are carnivores. See herbivorous and omnivorous.
Carrying capacity
The number of individuals an environment can support without degradation.
Catarrhini
old world - narrow nose - Cercopithecoidea (monkeys) and Hominoidea (apes)
Cebidae
larger new world monkeys - capuchin - cebus, squirrel - saimiri, howler alouatta - woolly spider - brachteles arachnoids.
Cereopithecines
One of two major taxonomic subdivisions within Old World monkeys.
Cercopithecines
tend to have a more frugivorous and/or gramnivorous (seed eaters) diet than the other major taxonomic group, the Colobines, who are folivores (leaf eaters).
Chacma Baboons
more fierce in defense against predators - fewer trees in their habitat.
Cheek Pouches
cheeks that are so elastic that they can expand to allow temporary storage of food. This is useful when there is competition. Vervet monkeys and Macaques have cheek pouches.
Chimpanzees
open male-bonded groups - no tail - grooming between males - vocalize loudly when they want to locate others, when something exciting happens - eat leaves, small fruit, insects, nuts - brachiators - lifelong relations between mothers and children who stay in the group - baby usually dies if its mother dies before it's weaned elaborate greeting ceremonies - central male group does boundary control - when two animals come together, dominant one puts arm over the other.
 
Coalitions
Groups of individuals within a primate troop usually cooperating to defend territory, acquire females, or challenge dominant individuals.
 
Colobines
One of two major taxonomic groups within Old World monkeys. Colobines have large guts and cellulose (enzyme) to digest leaves. They are Folivores.
 
Competitive exclusion
Two species cannot share a niche for long. One species will become extinct or change to occupy a slightly different niche.
 
Concealed ovulation
No signs of ovulation (e.g., no estrus swellings). In humans, females are unaware when they are ovulating.
 
Conspecific
Individuals of the same species.
 
Coalition
long-term alliance that develops over time
 
Colobines
in Africa: black and white, red, olive, kirk's - saculated stomachs - little sexual dimorphism - proceptive sexual behaviour - small multi-multi groups - dawn and dusk roaring - in SE Asia: Presbytis, Semnopithecus, Pygathrix, Nasalis - small one-male groups.
 
Communication
4 parts: signal, motivation, meaning, function - what's the unit size of a signal - meaning is context.
 
Clavicles
collarbones; the bones that connect the sternum with the scapula. A single clavicle on each side of the body goes from the center of the chest to the shoulders.
 
Collarbones - see clavicles
 
Crespecular
being neither noctural or diurnal exclusively but rather a combination therefore. See diurnal and noctural. Eg: Ringtail Lemurs
 
Crypsis
camouflage
 
Cusps
the elevated, somewhat pointed portions of the chewing surfaces on premolar and molar teeth.