Primates

(Diet of Primates)

Lemur 

The lemurs are a group of primates found only on the island of Madagascar. Today there are about 60 types of lemurs that live in virtually every habitat throughout the island.

Their diets show a high degree of versatility, although the general trend is that smaller species consume mainly fruit and insects, while larger species are herbivores, and eat mostly plant matter, like all primates, hungry lemurs might eat almost anything that is edible, whether or not their favorite foods. Many lemurs that eat leaves usually do during times of fruit scarcity, sometimes suffering weight loss for that reason.

Due to forest destruction and hunting, many lemurs are threatened with extinction. Some of the best known lemurs include: Aye-Aye lemur curly tail mouse lemur Verreaux's Sifaka. 

Spider Munkey 

They live in Central and South America from southern Mexico to the Tapajos River in the Brazilian Amazon. They are primarily arboreal, meet most of its activities in the dense forest cover and rain and dense jungles inhabited.

Spider monkeys have a higher intelligence than the gorilla, and brains than twice the size of howler monkeys. These monkeys have no thumbs, and instead have a four-fingered hand well adapted to cling to the branches. Also can grab his tail, and often used as a fifth arm.

The Yucatan Spider Monkey is a regional subspecies of Geoffroy s Spider Monkey. That due to loss of habitat is Considered an Endangered species.

They eat mostly fruits and nuts, and Their diet is Known to include up to 150 different plants. They are very important as seed Dispersers in the jungle.

Baboon

There are five different species of baboon. All of them live in Africa or Arabia. Baboons monkeys are among the largest in the world. The baboon body is between 60 and 100 centimeters, not including long tail, which has a variable length.

  They love the crops, feed on fruits, grass, seeds, bark and roots, but not averse to make meat. They eat birds, rodents and even bigger baby mammals like antelope and sheep.

They are foragers and are active at irregular times Throughout The Day and Night. They can raid human dwellings, and in South Africa, They Have Been Known to prey on sheep and goats.

Gibbon

All gibbons that exist today are natives of Asia. Its distribution extends from India to the islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Java.

The physical aspect of the gibbons closely resembles the monkey but has no tail. With his long arms, these primates are extremely agile hanging and jumping between tree branches.

Gibbons are omnivores (eating plants and meat). They forage for food in the forests during the day, eating fruit (Which constitutes About 75% of Their diet), leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, and tender plant shoots. They eat insects Also, spiders, bird eggs, and small birds.

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees  have very long arms, the arms are longer than the legs, a short body.  They live in a wide variety of habits, including tropical rain forests, woodlands, swamp forest, and grasslands in western Africa.
Chimpanzees are omnivores (eating plants and meat). They forage for food in the forests during the day, eating leaves, fruit, seeds, tree bark, plant bulbs, tender plant shoots, and flowers. They also eat termites, ants, and small animals . 

Chimps are capable of living in both terrestrial and arboreal environmental, chimps seldom venture far away from forests, except when moving from one forest patch to another. This is because they spend considerable time in trees, where they sleep, forage and socialize. 

Primates are the order of mammals belonging to the man and his closest relatives, so I think it is very important to help those primates that are in danger of extinction by the actions of men and changes in nature.  Leaving these animals alone in their environment and giving them the peace they need to procreate without interrupting the human hand.

Darwin's influence on evolution

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, was a French naturalist, one of the great men of the age of the systematization of Natural History, near its influence to Linnaeus, Buffon and Cuvier.
Lamarck formulated the first theory of biological evolution, one in 1802 coined the term biology to describe the science of living things and was the founder of invertebrate paleontology.

Lamarckism is the term used to refer to the theory of evolution formulated by Lamarck. In 1809 in his book Philosophy zoological proposed that no life forms were created and remained unchanged, as was accepted in his time, but had evolved from simpler life forms. He described the conditions that have led to the evolution of life and proposed the mechanism that would have evolved. Lamarck's theory is the first theory of biological evolution, fifty years ahead in Darwin's formulation of natural selection in his book The Origin of species 1.

Lamarck proposed his theory that life evolved by trial and error and then, that as individuals of a species change our situation, climate, way of being or of habit, so the influences are changing gradually consistency and proportions of its parts, its shape, its powers and its own organization to 4 would be the ability of organisms to adapt to the environment and the successive changes that have occurred in those environments, what that would have led to the evolution and diversity of species present.

Lamarck's theory was not taken into account at the time of its formulation, being 50 years later, with the publication of The Origin of Species, when evolutionists Darwin and rescued himself to try to fill the gap that natural selection propose not left to the source of the variability that act on the selection.

In the early twentieth century, with the development of the Weismann barrier, which states the impossibility of transferring information between somatic and germ line, considering it was discarded Lamarckism wrong. However, during the twentieth century have been evolutionists who have defended Lamarckism, currently there voices from biology and evolutionism claiming its reformulation.

Since the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, until today the Church has been refined its position on evolutionary theory. At first this institution not officially ruled against, although some clerics considerations. With the passage of time, the Church allowed the schools study the scientific implications of evolution, provided they do not attack their basic tenets.

It is known that creationism itself within the Bible has been always a subject of debate among scholars ecclesiastics. The more advanced personalities have defended the idea that Genesis should not be read literally. So the idea that the world was created in six days could be a symbol rather than real data.

Homologous and Analogous

1. The two species that has homologous traits are the dolphin and the bat, a dolphin's fin and the wing of a bat, are homologous organs that retain the same basic structure of the original ancestral species. The dolphin's fin, this is designed to swim and be almost always in contact with water, but the wing of a bat has the same structure but different function like fly and to make it more easy for them to succeed finding food. Homologous divergent evolution occurs, referring progressive adaptation of the same organ at different functions, such as running, climbing, swimming and flying.

2. A good example of analogous is the functional similarities between the wings of insects and birds, although both structures serve the same purpose, fly, allowing organs such activity are in origin and structure very different from one another, therefore the analogy may serve in this case to determine evolutionary convergences, but in no way can establish descent between species in biological evolution. These similarities, analogies calls are rather superficial and due to these organisms are subject to the same restrictions functional or adaptive, and is not due to having a recent common ancestor.

Were was the hungry animal.

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