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Question 1

Strepsirrhini are classified into three infraorder

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Lemuriformes, chiromyiformes and lorisiformes

Question 2

Haplorhini are classified into infra order

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Tarsiiformes,simiiformes

Question 3

Simiiformes are also classified into parvorder

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Platyrrhini and catarrhini

Question 4

Platyrrhini and catarrhini

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Platyrrhini Are old world monkey while Catarrhini are new world monkeys.

Question 5

Baboon society are

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Hierarchical where there is access to important resources like food and mates are determined by AGONISM OR AGGRESSIVE AND SUBMISSIVE interaction between male and females. The females stays in natal or birth group maintain strong affiliated bonds with closest relatives.

Question 6

Muriquis society have a pacific society because they are

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Non hierarchical, egalitarian relationships with one another. Only their male says in their natal groups with their mothers and other male kins or patrilines and females that leaves their their kin’s behind to pursue their reproductive career in other muriqui groups.

Question 7

Non human primates representing the

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“Boundary” separating human from other primates

Question 8

Primates

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They are groups of animals through which we trace our phylogeny or evolutionary history. Because they are closest living links next to our extinct ancestors. They make excellent models for identifying our ancestors traits.
Primates are diverse group long-lived animals, socially complex providing evolutionary and ecological processes that affect behavioural variation.

Question 9

Most question in primate behavioural ecology requires

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1. ultimate level of analysis (fictional question about why primates have been selected to behave as they do under particular conditions
2. Phylogenetic questions ( about how the evolutionary history of a particular trait or behaviour account for its distribution among closely related species.
   3.proximate level of analysis that many contemporary primatological or immediate cause for a particular behaviour requires a causal level of explanation.

Question 10

Tools in chimps

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Female chimps uses tools like twigs to fish termites or Avid tools more than men.

Question 11

Descriptive study research characterizes by

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Descriptive, Ethnographic type report: eg field work, pioneering researchers went to location to find wild primate and succeeded in wining the trust of primates they studied.

Question 12

Habituation

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Seeing how primates behaves when they are not on their guard.