Elephant Plains is our only problem left, although we are still some way off to getting it back - no ETA yet
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  1. What is a Plantigrade.
  2. Give an example.

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Wow, all of you are showing me that I need to brush up on my fauna!

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You're both right.  It's a bushbaby (galago) Smiling

The 'clue' is that unlike monkeys, apes and tarsiers they do not show true opposability and only possess whole hand grasping.  They cannot touch their thumb to each of the same hand fingers separately.

The thumb is not opposoble


 

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So i can get some sleep, is it a " Porcupine "

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Pheonix wrote:

Deary me Ingwe, it's now got to be a Bush Baby ( galagos )

lol pheonix, I follow you with the bush baby !

 

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Deary me Ingwe, it's now got to be a Bush Baby ( galagos )

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Nope, not a baboon.

I am nocturnal..

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Then i would guess>>

The Southern Savanah Baboon

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Pheonix wrote:

Answer to No. 2

White Faced Gibbon


No, not a gibbon.

(I live in Southern Africa)

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Answer to No. 2

White Faced Gibbon

http://www.zooschool.ecsd.net/white%20handed%20gibbon.htm

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No 2

  • I am a plantigrade
  • I have a large repetoire of calls
  • I cannot touch my thumb to each of the other same hand fingers separately

Who am I?

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