Locomotor Patterns

Lemurs

Lemurs are small primates known as "prosimians," which, roughly translated, means "pre-primates". Many Lemurs live in Madagascar or in the neighboring islands. Most Lemurs live in trees, they spend most of their time at the top of the rain forest canopy or in the forest mid-level. Only one Lemur is mostly on ground and that's the ring tailed lemur like the one above which leap instead of climbing. Lemurs do not have prehensile tails but they do have long, wet noses. Their thumbs and big toes are opposable, but they mainly use their teeth and an extended "toilet claw" on the second toe of their hind feet for grooming.  The way the Lemur is fit for its environment is like a match made from heaven. By lemurs having the advantage of being in trees and ground they can move from place to place quickly by either swing from tree to tree or hop from place to place. 


Spider Monkey

Spider monkeys live in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America and occur as far north as Mexico.They have long, lanky arms and prehensile tails that enable them to move gracefully from branch to branch and tree to tree. Unlike the lemurs Spider monkeys do not have thumbs. There locomotor    trait is quadrupedal, using all four limbs for walking or running; suspensory locomotion used when hanging, climbing or moving through the trees and bipedalism, using only two limbs when leaping. With the Spider monkeys traits it can also use it for getting from placed to place quicker but also get away from predators too.


Baboon

There are five different species of baboons. All of them live in Africa or Arabia. Baboons generally prefer savanna and other semi-arid habitats, though a few live in tropical forests.  Baboons do not have prehensile tails. But they can climb trees to sleep, eat, or look out for trouble. They spend much of their time on the ground.Baboons locomotor pattern is quadrupedal they use their feet and hands for walking and climbing.Baboons are adapted to there environment by having the ability to climb even though they can not hang from trees.

Gibbon

Gibbons live in tropical rain forests in high canopy layers. These monkeys spend most of their time swinging in trees.They have strong, hook-shaped hands for grasping branches, comically outsize arms for reaching faraway limbs, and long, powerful legs for propelling and gasping. Their form of locomotion, is called brachiating, can move gibbons through the jungle at up to 35 miles an hour, bridging gaps as wide as 50 feet with a single swinging leap. Brachiating also gives gibbons the unique advantage of being able to swing out and grab fruits growing at the end of branches, which limits competition for their favorite foods. Gibbons  are perfectly adapted to life in the trees and rarely descend to the ground. 

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees live in social communities of several dozen animals, and can habituate themselves to African rain forests, woodlands, and grasslands. Chimpanzees normally walk on all fours knuckles when they walk (can stand and walk upright). By swinging from branch to branch they can also move quite efficiently in the trees, where they do most of their eating. Chimpanzees usually sleep in the trees also. Locomotion patterns is quadrupedal.