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Pseudo-opposable thumbs: all strepsirrhines (lemurs, pottos and lorises) and Cebidae (capuchin and squirrel monkeys, which are New World monkeys) Opposable thumbs: Old World monkeys (Circopithecidae) except colobus, and all great apes; Opposable with comparatively long thumbs: gibbons (or lesser apes) Yet to be classified: other New World ...
The Old World species are divided into apes and monkeys depending on the number of cusps on their molars: monkeys have four, apes have five [72] - although humans may have four or five. [78] The main hominid molar cusp ( hypocone ) evolved in early primate history, while the cusp of the corresponding primitive lower molar (paraconid) was lost.
Unlike most Old World monkeys, many New World monkeys form monogamous pair bonds, and show substantial paternal care of young. [24] They eat fruits, nuts, insects, flowers, bird eggs, spiders, and small mammals. Unlike humans and most Old World monkeys, their thumbs are not opposable [25] (except for some cebids).
The chimpanzee's body is covered with coarse black hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. Both of its thumbs and its big toes are opposable, allowing a precision grip. Like most chimpanzee populations, the eastern chimpanzees have amber to brown irises and dark sclerae.
A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs.A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each "hand" and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having "hands" instead of paws on their front limbs.
New World monkeys have prehensile tails; Tails of many extant lizards (geckos, chameleons, and a species of skink) are prehensile; Seahorses grip seaweed with their tails. Several fossil animals have been interpreted as having prehensile tails, including several Late Triassic drepanosaurs, [2] and possibly the Late Permian synapsid Suminia. [3 ...
All old world monkeys and apes are trichromats, but new world monkeys are polymorphic trichromats, meaning that males and homozygous females are dichromats while heterozygous females are trichromats (with the exceptions of howler monkeys and night monkeys, who have more and less robust color vision respectively).
Nonopposable thumbs: tarsiers and marmosets; Pseudo-opposable thumbs: all strepsirrhines and Cebidae; Opposable thumbs: Old World monkeys and all great apes; Opposable with comparatively long thumbs: gibbons (or lesser apes) Pandas have evolved pseudo-opposable thumbs by extension of the sesamoid bone, which is not a true digit. [14]