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Ecology:

Gibbons actually have unique structure of life. First out of all the primates, gibbons are part of the 6 percentile that are monogamous. Also known as the “pair bonded,” male, female and their off spring. In addition, to their social group, female gibbons are the dominate figure. Even more different from other groups their offspring is the next important and finally lastly the male.

Geographic Distribution:

Due to issues such as deforestation and pet hunting gibbons can be found in zoo’s, to protect their endangered species. However, wildly they can be found around South-East Asia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. They are arboreal and live in tropical rainforests. Although living in captivity, has proven to serve them better. Since their life span stretches to 40 years of age and out of captivity they would survive from 25 to 30 years of age.

Evolution and Adaptively:

They contain much noticed adaptively. There fingers form hooks to better grip and move about the branches. Which they call “brachiation,” where they use their long arms to swing from tree to tree. Not only do they have better ability to move, they have good bipedal locomotion abilities.
A characteristic that kind of sets gibbons apart from others is their communication skills. They can create loud vocalization to announce location, defend ones territory, and communicate among their family. The calls/songs can be heard a mile away and double the length for the Siamangs species. Who could have adapted to a much enhanced throat sac.

Relations to other Primates:

Common characteristics that they share with other primates are ischial callosities, opposable fingers and toes, stereoscopic vision, flat faces, no tail, and enlarged brain size. There features belong to the lesser ape family. Cousins are chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos, gorillas and us humans of course.

Sources:

1. Smithsonian National Zoological Park. [Internet] Connecticut, Washington DC. Available from: http: //nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/MeetPrimates/ MeetGibbons/default.cfm.
2. True Wild Life. All About Wildlife. [Internet]. 2011 Feb 24, 2:17 am. Available from: http://true-wildlife.blogspot.com/2011/02/gibbon.html
3. American Primate Education Sanctuary. Gibbons. [Internet] Available from: primateeducation.wordpress.com/ primates/




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Alfred Wegener was born on November 1, 1880. He graduated with a Ph.D in astronomy at the age of 26 from the University of Berlin. In 1906, two years after he had earned his Ph.D, Alfred Wegener traveled to Greenland with a group of scientists to test the balloons which he had helped pioneer. These balloons were used to track air circulation. He made one more trip to greenland in 1912-1913 before he was drafted into the German Army in1914. He was released due to injury but he stayed in the force as a weather forecaster. In 1924 Alfred accepted a degree in meterology and geophysics. Alfred Wegener died at the young age of fifty on his way back from what was his last trip to Greenland.
The major accomplishment which involved the evolution of the world in which Alfred Wegener finalized was his “continental drift” theory. This theory was based off of plate tectonics. The idea in which all of the continents were at one time connected. Known today as Pangaea. At the time this was a highly crticized topic but Alfred had done his homework and had the information and data which changed the minds of many and brought beliefs to his brilliant idea. This is heavily involved with evolution simply because of the movement our earth goes through.
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