Comparative Primate

A: Environment:

Lemurs live in a tropical paradise home spending most of their time in the trees. They can only be found in Madagascar and other neighboring Comoro islands living in the tops of trees and live in groups amongst the rainforest canopy. Their environment is a moist tropical lowland rainforest or in the rainforest mountains.  Some lemurs live in a dry bush land desert area located in the southern parts of Madagascar. Lemurs can also be found in farmlands due to their habitat loss from people clearing parts of the rainforest for cropping sugar and other resources.

 Spider monkeys can be found in tropical forests from southern Mexico to Brazil. They require large patches of undisturbed forests and specialize on nourishing ripe fruits within the forest. Their environment in which they live in enables them to move speedily though trees. Spider monkeys are threatened by people there habitat is destroyed by the continued agriculture and residential development.

Baboons can be found in parts of Africa. They live up in the trees and climb down when hunting for food. They can be found in open woodlands, grassland, savannas or some live in the rocky hillside county.

Gibbon is small class of primate monkeys. They spend almost most of their times living in trees. These animals are also endangered due to their destruction of their homelands. They are a territorial type of ape that live in the upper canopy of the lowland rainforest of South East Asia. Gibbons feed on insects leaves and fruits and flowers that there environment provides for them.

Chimpanzees can be found in the forests of Central and West Africa.  They habituate themselves to African low land rain forests, woodlands, and grasslands, in mountainside forests, and the savannah. The chimpanzee lives both in the trees and on land. They are a brilliant type of monkey that uses their resources from there environment as tools to use for food and other necessities.

B: Locomotor patterns:

Lemurs are quadruple type of primates that walk on all fours limbs. They are also well-known leapers that leap from tree branch to tree branch and from the ground onto trees. lemurs are Fairley well climbers due to their environment which consist many of trees. 

Spider monkeys live in trees and are very acrobatic monkeys they move from tree to tree with speed and can also hang on their tails. A spider monkeys locomotion is that different compared to others they are a quadruple type of monkey that uses suspensory locomotion 

Baboons teeth do not look anything like that of ordinary monkeys It is said that the shape of their teeth have been changed to look the way they do because of their genes environment. Baboons also walk on all four limbs they can be seen moving around on their heels and toes.

Gibbon: It is said that when gibbons swing, their wrist will naturally dislocate until the gibbon finishes its swing. They also have long hands and feet, they swing from tree to tree with their hands hanging on the trees like a hook type motion. Gibbons have a type of locomotion movement called biaxial movement. The gibbon’s ball-and-socket joints allow them great speed and accuracy when swinging moving through trees. Although gibbons spend most of their times in trees they are rarely are seen on the ground, when they are on the ground they are able to walk on two legs.

Chimpanzees normally walk on all fours limbs and walk on their front arms using their knuckles, and they can stand and walk upright. By swinging from branch to branch chimpanzees can move quite efficiently in the trees. Chimpanzees also have a firm grip and are also capable of holding objects with their hands. Because chimpanzees have such a firm grip they are capable of swinging from tree to tree with there arms.

C:

 Lemurs: lemurs were originally the type of monkey that lived the entire world but became extinct in all parts of the world because of other predators. Because Madagascar is a branch of Africa and separated from it thousands of years ago lemurs are now the only thing living there and have no known predators there. These animals adapt to all environments but only live in Madagascar a place full of trees makes them able to leap from branch to branch.

Spider monkeys are the type of monkey that become easy prey for many animals when they are on the ground so they are rarely seen on the ground so these animals learned to adapt to their environment consisting mainly high up in trees they became more flexible and are able to move swiftly through trees. Gibbons are very like spider monkeys they are very acrobatic and flexible due to their environment which consist mainly of trees. Because these two animals become easy prey for other animals when they are seen on the ground these monkeys spend most of their times in trees Therefore, making them adaptable to the trees around them. So these two types of monkeys are able to move swiftly through the forest tree branches.

Baboons are very different from other types of monkey they don’t swing from tree branch to tree branch mainly because of their environment, baboons don live in rainforest like other monkeys so they are not the swinging type. Baboons walk in a heel to toe type of motion due to them spending most of their time in trees.

Chimpanzees are adaptable to all types of environments. These types of monkeys are extremely brilliant they have a large size brain like that of a human. Why these monkey have developed a type of brain similar to humans is questionable it could mean that they are evolving and are the furthest type of monkey that has evolved. There locomotion pattern changes to the type of environment they live in. they are capable of swinging from tree to tree and there brain learns to develop into their environment.

C.    

Each and every one of these types of monkeys has been influenced by they’re environments. If you were to compare each and every type of monkey you will find similar types of traits. It’s a matter of where these monkeys were placed these monkey learned to adapt to their environment (like humans adapt to their environment when were placed in the dessert, mountains etc.) thus changing their genes and physical features to look different from each other. So the locomotion patterns these monkeys can be compared for example the locomotion types of the spider monkey and the gibbon are similar due to that fact that they spend most of their times in trees. Not only has environment which consist of trees for most of these monkeys become a factor of influence in the changing of locomotion patters but also natural predators that prey on sorts of monkeys has influenced there locomotion patters some monkey use their trees to their advantage to flee predators.

                                                                   

SPIDER MONKEY

BABOON

Chimpanzee

Gibbon

Lemurs