Comparative

Lemur

 

Prosimians are animals which are found on the Madagascar and adjacent islands of South Africa. Their diets are almost dominated by fruit. Prosimians are active predators hunting for insects and other small animals in the trees. Promsimians have toilet like claws with the use for grooming and catching food to feed themselves and/or their families. Their preys usually only consist of insects, eggs and newly hatched birds. Promosians are red- green colored blind. Their eyes work like specialized lights to help them see and get around at night.

 

Spider Monkey

 

The new world monkey is one of the five families found in limited tropical forest environments such as Central and South America and parts of Mexico. Spider monkeys live in warm forest like environments that fluctuate little in temperature. The eat leaves, fruit, nuts, gums, and prey on insects. Their sizes vary from two different tiny marmosets and tamarins from twelve ounces to a twenty pound howler monkey. Their favorite food is carbohydrate-rich filled tree sap. The new world monkey taps into the top of the tree by gnawing holes in the trunk of the tree. Some tamarins species eat flower nectar as well. And the small marmosets species venture into the very top of the forest canopies to hunt insects that are abundant there.

 

Baboon

The Old World Monkey are African species that are found in a wide variety of grassland and mountainous areas with heavy winter snow such as South and East Asia,  and also the Gibraltar at the Southern tip of Spain. They sleep in trees and/or on cliff faces. Unlike the New World Monkeys they spend most of their time on the ground rather than high in the trees. There are many different species on the Old World Monkeys. They are large animals being about the size of small to medium sized dogs. The Old World Monkey spends days in large groups foraging for food on grasslands. Some have cheek pouches that expand to allow secure temporary storing for food. Some female species form sexual skin around the time of ovulation. Large male baboons hunt other monkeys, young chimpanzees and flamingos for food.





Gibbon

Gibbons have about twelve to thirteen species. Lesser apes are also know to the world as Hylobatidae. Most of the adult Lesser Apes are about three feet tall. They usually weigh about twelve to twenty pounds. Males are known as the biggest gibbon species weighing about thirty pounds. They have long bushy- hairy bodies which makes them look as though they have these buff like figures. Lesser Apes move around in trees by swinging under branches with a hand over hand motion. And unlike the Old World Monkey, the Lesser Ape lives in well defined territories in the tree tops and rarely go down to the forest floor, so they pretty much spend most of their time swinging up in the trees. Adult Lesser Apes regularly defend their territory against the others of their species with piercingly loud whooping and hooting vocalizations.

Chimpanzee

 

Chimpanzees are more familiar to humans. They are the only non-like human specie that resembles humans more than the others. Males grow up to 5 1/2 feet tall and weigh up to 100 pounds and females weigh up to about 85 pounds. Chimpanzees act just like baboons by forming in groups to hunt for food. They live in tropical forests in the Savannas of South Africa.

 

 

Just like the other species, many of these species are all found in tropical forest and they all hunt whether its for big animals, insects or other species. The most interesting thing I have learned about this assignment is even though none of these species are the same  but they all have similar traits as to where they stay and how they all have to hunt in order to survive. They all sleep and live in different circumstances. But they are only found in tropical areas.