Questions about Primate locomotion?

Question

what is the most common form of locomotion among primates?

using hands and feet interchangeably is what type of locomotion?

primates tend to have _____ dentition and locomotion, though some have specializations?

Answer 1

Wow...I wish I remembered my intro to biological anthro class a little better. Its rather obvious these aren't questions you're just coming up with for fun, and I'd reccomend you would get more out of the exercise if you just looked them up in whatever assigned textbook you have...with that being said...

If I remember correctly the most common locomtotion (among lower primates at least) is "Brachiation."

If this is what I am thinking of the next answer is knuckle-walking.

And I can only guess the last one is varied.

I really wish I had my old bio antrho book laying here. I can remember having to anser all these questions, but it slips my mind now. You're so luck to have to learn this.

Answer 2

The most common form of locomotion would be something quadrupedal. The forms of common locomotion are: Brachiation (arm swinging, including the apes and humans (we are built for it, but don't do it)), Verticle Clinging and Leaping, Semibrachiation (both swing and cling and leap with the aide of prehensile tail, most common in NWM), Bipedalism (humans only, some bonobos), Terrestrial Quadrupedalism (arms and legs on the ground), Arboreal Quadrupedalism (arms and legs on the tree, walking not leaping and clinging).

Using hands and feat interchangably should be referring to quadrupedal locomotion. The question isn't clear enough to determine if it is arboreal or terrestrial quadrupedal locomotion they are talking about.

The dentition question is poorly asked. There is no relationship between dentition and locomotion, and no large ranging generalization can cover all of the primates (tarsiers, lorises, lemurs, NWM, OWM, apes, humans). There is no relationship really between teeth and movement.



All primates have nearly the same dental arcade with a few differences between New World and Old World Monkeys and the Ape family. I know all OWM and Apes have a 2-1-2-3 arcade, and all NWM, lemurs and lorises (with the exception of the Aye-Aye) have a 2-1-3-3. I think tarsiers have a less evolved arcade, and I can't remember the numerical build of it.

If you list your mulitple choice answers I can figure out which one is the most correct.

For the last question the blank may be the word: "similar"