Bilaterally symmetrical animals
ORDER: Primates
Primates is the order which contains lemurs, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes.
Primates have developed a good sense of visual depth. In most other mammals, the sense of smell is used to better effect.
Some primates have also developed a sense of colour in regards to their vision.
Primates have developed an excellent ability to climb and swing through woodland areas.
Many primates have a developed thumb which is different from other digits, familiar in humans.
Primates also display qualities of using their hind legs as the primary legs for walking.
Some primates have tails that have the ability to grab things, such as trees to aid their swinging talent.
Primates are known to be around 58 to 55 million years old, however it believed that they are actually older than this, possibly as long ago as 85 million years.
Primates can be split into two suborders. Those suborders are strepsirrhini and haplorrhini.
Strepsirrhini are wet nosed primates, whose noses are connected to their upper lip.
The haplorrhini are dry nosed primates.
Humans are part of the haplorrhini.
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STREPSIRRHINI Wet nosed primates. |
Dry nosed primates. |
