Final Review

FINAL EXAM REVIEW

Be able to answer the following:

• Why is it not surprising that the individual primates vary in their behavior patterns? 
• Is all behavior functional?  Does this impact our assessment of behavior?  How could non-functional behavior spread in a group of primates? 
• Why are “zones of sympatry and allopatry” important in understanding human-nonhuman primates' interconnections?   What can we learn about primates by looking at their interactions with humans?  What is ethnoprimatology?
• Do primates negotiate conflict?  What is reconciliation and do all primates do it the same way?  How do dyadic relationships come into play in our efforts to understand conflict negotiation?  Do humans differ from the other primates in this area? Where do primates place most of their energetic investment?  What is the relationship of socio-sexual behavior to conflict negotiation?  Is aggression an adaptation?
• Why should we expect to see different mating strategies between males and females?  Is anisogamy the full, or even a possible, answer? How do we measure reproductive effort and why does this matter?  Why would a male or female primate be monogamous? 
• What is mate choice and how does it affect primate behavior?  Why and how do primates “choose” mates? 
• What is the Triver’s hypothesis?  Is it really relatively “cheap” to be a male?  What are the potential physiological costs of male reproduction?  Be sure to discuss sperm competition, dispersal, general stress and other pre-mating investment.
• What is social organization and what are its constituent components?   Why do we call it an emergent property?  What does variable social organization mean? 
• Do non-human primates have culture?  What are social traditions and how are they important to primates?  Can social traditions impact how primates adapt to environmental challenges?
• Why should we care if primate species go extinct or not?  How can the study of primate behavior be relevant to conservation and management activities? What can studying macaques in urban and other human places tell us about conservation management for primates?