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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... length and diameter of vertebral bodies , on the ability of regions of the spine to flex in a dorsoventral direction , considering only the vertebral bodies and intervertabral disks . 124 5.2 Comparison of the back of the skull base and ...
... length , bulla breadth , upper tooth row length , and lower tooth row length . 187 8.3 Discriminant analysis of tarsier samples , using skull length , biorbital breadth , orbit breadth , bulla length , bulla breadth , and palate breadth ...
... length of Tarsius . Am J Primat 9 : 327-331 . Kay RF , Ross C , Williams CA. 1997. Anthropoid origins . Science 275 : 797–804 . Martin RD . 1993. Primate origins : plugging the gaps . Nature 363 : 223–234 . Murphy WJ , Eizirik E ...
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Ecology and Conservation Status of Tarsius Bancanus Saltator on Belitung ... Indra Yustian Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |