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- Title
Locomotor Diversity in Prosimian Primates.
- Authors
Gebo, Daniel L.
- Abstract
An understanding of prosimian movement is basic to many anatomical and paleontological studies in that these studies attempt to correlate movement with anatomy and therefore infer movement in fossil primates. Duke University has a large and diverse collection of prosimian primates, which are housed in cages and enclosures large enough for movement studies. Extant prosimians move in many different ways, and none are so specialized that only one mode of travel is used. The most general locomotor patterns are observed for the cheirogaleids, and thus theirs may best resemble the locomotor patterns of the ancestral euprimate.
- Subjects
PROSIMIANS; ANIMAL locomotion; CHEIROGALEIDAE; LEMURIDAE; LORISES; FOSSIL primates
- Publication
American Journal of Primatology, 1987, Vol 13, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
0275-2565
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajp.1350130305