Virtual Exploration 1. Primate Taxonomy
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/zoology/Animalclassification/PrimateTaxonomy/PrimateTaxonomy.htm

• Look across the top of the chart on the main page. How many different taxonomic levels are listed?
• What order do humans belong in? Suborder?
• What other suborder shares our classification?

• List some of the general primate behavioral characteristics.
• Are there any surprises here? List one or two.
• The "general primate anatomical features" lists hand and eye features common to all primates.
• See if you can remember what the significance is of these features are from the material in Chapter 5.
  

Virtual Exploration 2. Primate Info Net
The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison continues its work on primates in the tradition of Dr. Harry Harlow (discussed in Chapter 5). The site [http://pin.primate.wisc.edu] provides a wealth of helpful information concerning issues as contemporary as Primates in Pop Culture and the Movies and issues involving biomedical research and recent news article about primates. Primate Factsheets provides quick links for locating particular primates geographically or taxonomically: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets

• Is this an Old World or New World Monkey?
• What does the photo tell you?
• What other information is there?
• Now click on the African Mammals Databank link.
• What additional information does the link provide?
• Why are teeth and dental patterns so important in classification?

Virtual Exploration 3. Comparative Primate Behavior
[http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/behavior/index.html], Primate InfoNet resources on primate behavior and ecology.

• What are some of the behavioral traits discussed in the article "Chimps and Humans"? What about differences?
• Sex and aggression has been subject of interest since the time of Freud. In what ways do we approach sex and aggression?
• Do they have a similar form of expression in both groups?
• What is the state of knowledge about the particular group of primates you have chosen? Do scientists know much about this particular type of behavior in this species? Does this research build on what scientists know about primates or does it investigate a new area of behavior?
• Do different authors have similar views of primates, or do their views on the capabilities of primates differ?

Virtual Exploration 4. What's New on PIN
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/whatsnew.html

• What are some of the main topics covered?
• Do many of the articles focus on great apes?
• What about monkeys?
• Primate research?