Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• identify the charactistics of primates and explain the main differences between the two suborders, prosimians and anthropoids

• describe the detection of colour and estimation of distance in primates and explain the advantages of stereoscopic trichromatic vision

• discuss the various types of communication seen in anthropoids and explain how playback experiments contribute to understanding vocal communication

• compare and contrast adaptations in primates with adaptations in other mammals

• compare and contrast how species reduce the risk of predation and avoid competition with other species.