week 4 Primates

Diet comparison
Lemurs
A.) Lemurs are only found in Madagascar, which is in island in the Indian ocean just east of Africa. The reduction in rainfall to there environment is endangering the lemurs, because they need fresh water to live. Lemurs spend most of their time up in trees or bushes.
B.) A lemurs diet consists of mostly vegetables such as, leaves or flowers. Also they will eat some fruits, little insects and sometimes little animals. Lemurs will eat almost any plant that is edible.
C.) The environment of the lemur has effected there diet. Since lemurs live in the rain forest there is a lot of trees with leaves and also insects which are part of there diet. Lemurs are small, so they couldn't hunt large animals,  they had to find food that they could survive on and the food they eat does just that.

Spider Monkey

A.) Spider Monkey's live in the tree tops from southern Mexico to Brazil. These primates live in the rainforest's and like to stay in there natural habitat, they don't wonder off. They are found in wet rainforest's in the trees and hardly ever found on the ground.

B.) Spider monkey's eat mostly different fruits, seeds, nuts and insects. These new world monkey's also will eat bird eggs found on the top of trees.  Spider monkey's will also from time to time eat certain leaves and flowers.

C.) The environment has not effected there diet much but provides them with food. The rainforest's they live in have a lot of different fruits which make it easy for spider monkey's to get to, so the availability of food may have cause them to eat what they eat.

   

Baboon
A.) Baboon's live in east Africa and can be found in a number of different habitats. These primates can be found in rainforest's or in the desert. A requirement for the baboon is where it sleeps at, they like to sleep on a cliff side or in tall trees so they can sleep safely.
B.) Baboon's are omnivores but grass makes up most of there eating habits. They also eat berries, seeds, leaves, and bark depending on where they are. A baboon will also eat different animals such as fish, shellfish, birds, small antelopes, and velvet monkey's.
C.) The environment the baboon lives in does effect there diet. Since baboons are found in many different habitats they eat many different things depending on if they are by water, in the rain forest, or in the desert.

 Gibbon
A.) Gibbon's live in old growth tropical rainforest's located in southeast Asia. These monkey's like to stay up high in the trees to stay away from danger on the ground.
B.) Gibbon's are omnivores but almost three quarters of there diet is fruits. When there is no fruit to be found they also eat leaves flowers, seeds, and bark. Other then trees and plant life for there diet they eat insects, spiders, bird eggs, and small birds. Gibbon's drink water from rain or dipping there hands in water and slurping it from their fur coat. Gibbon's usually only eat in the mornings from around 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
C.) The environment this primate lives in does effect there diet. Since Gibbon's like to stay high in trees they only eat what is up on trees or birds that will fly from tree to tree.

Chimpanzee

A.) Chimp's live in in large communities in the tropical forests of Africa. Communities of chimpanzee's can range anywhere from 10 to 150 primates, while the males will stay in one community there whole life and once a female are adults they will leave to a neighboring community. Chimp's spend just as much time on the ground as they do in trees. 

B.) Chimpanzee's eat mainly fruit are not limited to eating only fruit. They also enjoy eating leaves, seeds, bark, honey, nuts, and termites. Also, they eat mammals including birds and other monkey's. Meat only consists of about 5% of there diet so they do not eat to many mammals in there life time. The types of monkey's they eat are baby bushboks, colobus monkey's, and baby baboons. The chimp's success rate for hunting is very high from 55-80%.

C.) The environment does not effect the Chimpanzee's diet to much it seems they eat anything that they can. Living in a forest makes them more inclined for eating leaves and plants. 

The environment each primate lives in does effect there physical and behavioral traits. Most monkey's diet's are about the same, vegetables, leaves, fruits, seeds etc. The difference is the monkeys that go on the ground eat bigger animals and insects also they eat more of a variety. Monkey's that stay high in the trees only eat things that go up that high or what the plant life provides for them.