Primate Evolution and Behavior

I picked the Preconsul aficanus, this species was found in 1948 at Rusinga Island, which is located at Lake Victoria in Kenya. The Preconsul africanus, ate fruit and had a larger brain than a monkey. They moved by branch locomotion, but different from a monkey because they couldn't move by swinging from branch to branch, due to the way that there arms were. So they would hold onto a branch to scourge the ground for fallen fruit, with one hand on the branch and the other on the ground, so that when danger came they could retreat from it. They had limited forearm movements, because of their rigid elbow joints. Basically, they moved similar to monkeys but did not swing from branch to branch. Now, with that being said, I believe this is how they went extinct, due to their movement limitations from other animals that ate them. This species is an ancestor of humans and apes and was living 25 million years ago.

References

Proconsul. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 2015, from http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/p/proconsul.html

Proconsul africanus - Miocene hominoid Proconsul africanus. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 2015, from http://archaeologyinfo.com/proconsul-africanus/

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Created on May 31, 2015 by Lionel Sharpe || Professor Lindsay Barone || Felix Melendez