| heavily forest areas of SE Asia - ischial
callosities - don't make nests, sit in trees like monkeys - intermembral
index 130+ (arms longer than legs) - don't walk quadrupedally (or bipedally
much) - territorial, defend 90% of range - monogamous pairs - spend lots
of time in canopy - lots of grooming. |
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| berengi - mountain, grauri - eastern lowlands, gorilla
- western lowlands male-female relationship basis of cohesion of group -
half of their day is spent feeding males don't participate in raising children
- eat leaves, stems, bamboo, bark - females more arboreal (smaller) - build
nests, use them for one night only - chest beating is adult intimidation
- adult male may take baby if mother dies - walk on knuckles - lots of time
sitting upright - extensive overlap in ranges - get water from plants -
females leave group often when just presexual. |
| the time between conception and birth in animals. Another
word for this is pregnancy. great apes the gorillas and chimpanzees of Africa
and the orangutans of Southeast Asia. These species are referred to as great
apes because they are the largest apes. See Lesser Apes. |
| carefully picking through hair looking for insects, twigs,
and other debris. Primates frequently allogroom, which is to say they groom
each other to reinforce social relationships. |