Tarsiers: Past, Present, and FuturePatricia C. Wright, Elwyn L. Simons, Sharon Gursky-Doyen Rutgers University Press, 2003 - 324 páginas Tarsiiformes, or tarsiers for short, are a group of living species of special interest to primatologists because their combination of derived and ancient characters make them pivotal to understanding the roots of primate evolution. These small-bodied, nocturnal, solitary creatures resemble lower primates in their behavior but genetically, DNA evidence aligns them more closely with higher primates, such as monkeys, apes, and humans. These astounding creatures exhibit an ability found in no other living mammal3⁄4they can turn their heads 180 degrees in either direction to see both prey and predators. The world's only exclusive carnivorous primate, they eat live food (primarily insects, but the occasional vertebrate, such as lizards, snakes, or frogs will also do). This unique combination of behavior and anatomy makes the tarsier an especially interesting and controversial animal for study among primate behaviorists, evolutionists, and taxonomists, who view the tarsiers as "living fossils" that link past and present, lower and higher, primates in the long chain of evolutionary history. |
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... female and male duet calls . 203 9.3 Two sections of a vocal dispute between two pairs of T. spectrum at the boundary of their territories . 205 9.4 Spectrograms of vocalizations of adult T. spectrum : call types 1 to 8 . 206 9.5 ...
... Female Tarsiers 13.7 Captive Births : Tarsius bancanus 287 ļ 288 13.8 Captive - Born Tarsiers Surviving More than Three Years 13.9 Known Causes of Death in Captive Tarsiers 289 291 14.1 Tarsier Names , Red List Classification , and ...
... females have swollen red vulvas like Old World monkeys ( Wright et al . , 1986a ) , and tarsiers pro- duce huge newborn infants , up to 25-30 percent of the mother's weight ( Haring and Wright , 1989 ) . Tarsiers gestate for six months ...
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Ecology and Conservation Status of Tarsius Bancanus Saltator on Belitung ... Indra Yustian Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |