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Title: The American Museum of Natural History : an introduction Identifier: ammuseintro00amer Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1972">1972</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1970">1970s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorAmerican_Museum_of_Natural_History">American Museum of Natural History</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectAmerican_Museum_of_Natural_History">American Museum of Natural History</a>; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectNatural_history_museums">Natural history museums</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherNew_York_N_Y_American_Museum_of_Natural_History">New York, N. Y. : American Museum of Natural History</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorAmerican_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library">American Museum of Natural History Library</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorIMLS_LSTA_METRO">IMLS / LSTA / METRO</a>
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Text Appearing After Image: At dusk several chimpanzees start constructing their nightly sleeping plat- forms, while deep in the central rain forest a band of bright-faced mandrills forages on the ground. In another treetop group a troop of colobus monkeys, dramatically colored black and white, feeds on vegetation. In a South African setting, a herd of springbuck "pronks" by the now-rare black wildebeest and blesbok. In the Serengeti of Tanzania, scavengers assemble over a zebra kill—vultures, hyenas, and jackals will make short work of the carcass. Hall of the Biology of Primates (Third Floor, Section 2) Man, apes, and monkeys all belong to the same group—the primates. With mounted animals, skeletons, and diagrams, the Hall of the Biology of Primates shows the range of specialization of primates from tree shrews to man. Lemurs and tree shrews are considered primitive primates. Lemurs are found primarily in Madagascar, and some of them, such as the aye-aye, are endangered species because their forests have been destroyed. Of the several monkey families, two are from South America: the marmosets and the cebids. Some of the latter have a prehensile tail, most developed in such groups as the spider monkeys. The Old World monkeys have many charac- teristics in common that are not found in New World monkeys. They have specializations for leaf-eating and ground-dwelling, they have bare patches of skin over the bones on which they sit, and none uses its tail as a fifth hand. The apes—chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas from Africa, orangutans and gibbons from Asia—are the apes most closely related to humans. Exhibits in the hall show the evolutionary development of the structures, reproductive systems, kinds of locomotion, and habits of the primates. iimpanzee, from equatorial Af- ia, is chiefly vegetarian but will Jl and eat some small animals Mogy of Primates, Third Floor, ction 2). 115
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| Date | circa 1972 |
| Source | Image from page 116 of "The American Museum of Natural History : an introduction" (1972) |
| Author | Internet Archive Book Images |
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