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Lecture 21: Gibbons, Siamangs, and ...Monogamy? Test

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  1. Social group structure and mating patterns: Pair formation:Less stable than originally thought:
    New pairs
  2. Socioecology of Hylobatidae: Males engage in pair bonds because
  3. Vocalizations or Songs: Taxa are also distinguished by
  4. General ecology:Terminal branch feeding
  5. True Monogamy? No... Females (H. lar) at some sites maintain simultaneous sexual relations with
  1. a ≥ 2 males, 21% in socially polyandrous groups
  2. b -newlywed" model
    -Take over model
    -Replacement after death, disappearance or desertion
  3. c vocalizations (genera differ)
  4. d important
  5. e Cannot defend > 1 female, OR
    Protect against infanticide, OR
    To guard their mate given the potential for EPCs, OR
    Efficiency of foraging, constraints of feeding ecology

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Extra-pair copulations well documented
  2. diploid number, 50 chromosomes; largest body size, up to about 15kg
  3. diploid number, 38 chromosomes; sexual dichromatism
  4. diploid number, 52 chromosomes; sexual dichromatism
  5. Smaller bodied than other apes
    Ischial callosities, they sleep sitting up do not make nests like "great apes"

5 True/False Questions

  1. Territoriality Indicated by behavior during intergroup encountersVocalizations, male and female solos, duets

          

  2. "Lesser Apes" : Most are allopatric, but siamangs (Symphalangus) overlaps withlar gibbons and agile gibbons

          

  3. Relationship among lesser apesHylobatidae, (about 5MYA) becomes Nomascus, Symphalangues and Hylobates. Hylobates subdivide to Hoolock

          

  4. True Monogamy? Crested gibbons (Nomascus) are sometimesExtra-pair copulations well documented

          

  5. Territoriality: Occasionally (butFruit 59% diet on average, also young leaves, flowers, insects
    Figs as an important fruit (25% diet)