Mammals: Primates, Hooved Animals, Mammals & Man

What order do gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys belong to?

• Rodents
• Marsupials

• Primates
• Carnivores

Answer explanation

Primates are noted for their highly developed nervous systems and brains. Sometimes they can be trained to an even higher degree than dogs, cats, horses, and many other mammals.

Primates' hands are designed for (a)   , and they have (b)   on their fingers and toes.

• grasping

• nails

• digging

• claws

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Which of these primates has a tail?

• Gorillas

• Monkeys

• Gibbons

• Orangutans

• Chimpanzees

Answer explanation

Apes are primates without tails, which include gorillas, gibbons, orangutans, and chimpanzees.

What is the largest ape?

• Mountain Gorilla

• Gibbon

• Orangutan

• Chimpanzee

Answer explanation

The average mountain gorilla stands 5-1/2 ft high, has a chest 5 feet around, and weighs about 430 pounds.

Older male gorillas with gray hair on their backs are called (a)   .

• silverbacks

• goldenbacks

• whitebacks

Answer explanation

Match the following:

• Trained to help paralyzed people

• 
• Used to discover the Rh factor in blood

• 
• Have gone into space

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Old World monkeys (a)   grip things with their tails, and New World monkeys (b)   grip things with their tails.

• cannot

• can

Answer explanation

Old World monkeys live in Africa and Asia and include mandrill, the colobus monkey, the baboon, the rhesus, among others.

New World monkeys live in the tropical forest of Central and South America as well as Africa and Asia. These monkeys include marmosets, douroucoulis, squirrel monkeys, woolly monkeys, plus others.

🔵The (a)   has been man's best helper for thousands of years.

🔵The (b)   have been the most valuable animals to mankind by providing him with food, clothing, and labor.

🔵The most important food animals are the (c)   animals.

🔵Some of the most important animals for man's use are the (d)   .

• Dog

• horse
• hoofed mammals
• even-toed hoofed
• odd-toed hoofed

• bovids

Answer explanation

Another name for even-toed hoofed animals is cloven-hoofed animals. They included sheep, cattle, goats, antelope, giraffes, camels, deer, pigs, and hippopotamuses.

The most interesting part of a horse's body is its feet. It only has (a)   on each foot, and the tip of each toe bone is protected by a (b)   . This is made out of the same hard substance as your fingernails but surrounds their whole foot. A horse also has a padded cushion on the bottom of its foot known as the (c)   that acts like a shock absorber to protect the leg from injury and gives the horse firm footing on slippery or steep surfaces.

• one toe

• hoof

• two toes

• frog

• pad

• rabbit

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What is the practice of choosing an animal's parents so that the baby will have desired characteristics called?

• Selective breeding

• Natural breeding

• Balance of Nature

Answer explanation

Men have used selective breeding to develop more than 150 breeds of domestic horses. Depending on size and weight, they can be placed into 3 groups: light (saddle) horses, heavy (draft) horses, or ponies.