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ANTH101- primates
primate locomotion
Question | Answer |
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Arboreal quadruped | walks on all four legs in trees |
Terrestrial quadruped | walks on all four legs on the ground |
Leaping | jumping from tree to tree |
Vertical clinging and leaping | grasping with fingers and toes |
Suspensory | move on limb at a time in trees |
Slow climbing | move on limb at a time, closer to forest floor (slender lorise, cladorhine, strepsorhine) |
Brachiation | specialized form of arm swinging, special shoulder morphology (only gibbons) |
Knuckle-walking | pads on other side of fingers for help with support for semi erect walkers |
Bipedalism | walking on two feet (humans= most efficient, not the only ones [banobo]) |