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| Higher body weight and higher metabolic rate |
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| Prosimians and Anthropoids |
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| 2 Sub-Orders of Order Primates |
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| monkeys, apes, and humans |
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| Areas of occupation of Primates |
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Low-altitude tropical or subtropical forest environments in Africa, Asia, and America.
high altitudes in Africa, Nepal, and Japan |
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| frugivores, folivores, insectivores, gumnivores, and omnivores |
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| moist nose, open nostrils, rhinarium, includes prosimians |
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| Closed upper lip, sometimes hair, closed nostril |
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| Lemuridae, Indridae, Daubentoniidae, Lorisidae, Tarsiidae, Galagidae, Cheirogaleidae |
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| Toothcomb and grooming claw on 2nd pedal digit |
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| 2 unique features of prosimians |
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| Madagascar, dichromatic and polychromatic |
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| terrestrial, frugivore, folivore, diurnal, multimale, multifemale |
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| Nocturnal, folivore, frugivore, dichromatic, polychromatic, cudpad, caecotroph |
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| Found in madagascar, diurnal, arboreal, frugivore, folivore, vertical clinger and leaper, round skull, and deep face |
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| Extremely long hind limbs, hindlimb dominant locomotion, 4-tooth toothcomb, monogamous |
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| Family Daubentoniadae (Aye-Aye) |
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| Found in Madagascar,tapetum, no tooth-comb, interior incisor, which is used for digging |
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| Big ears, Elongated third digit, nails compressed into claw-like structure |
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| Mouse lemur, elongated ankle, stores some carbohydrates in tail and hind legs, leapers |
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| Pneumaticized mastoid region |
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| Lorises, Lack tail, slow-moving, reduced second digit, cautious climbers |
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| nocturnal and cryptic, carnivorous,some social, some solitary, hunts understory of forest, vertical clinger |
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| lacks tapetum, lacks rhinarium, largest eyes relative to body size, third digit is grooming claw |
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| closed nostrils, closed upper lips no rhinarium |
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| haplorhine, tail longer than its body, scales on tail and aerole, hemochorial placentation with bicornuate uterus |
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| Systematist's Debate for Tarsiidae to be Prosimians |
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| grooming claw, prosimian-like in skeletal structure, bi-cornuate uterus |
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| Systematist's Debate for Tarsiidae to be Anthropoids |
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| They Are haplorhine, lacks baculum, hemochorial placentation, lacks tapetum |
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