Primates quiz

Tap an answer. You can check your thinking on each animal's plate.

1. Swinging arm over arm through trees is called?
   Knuckle-walkingBrachiationBipedalismGliding
   Gibbons are the masters of brachiation. See the plate
2. Which of these is an ape, not a monkey?
   BaboonMandrillGibbonTamarin
   Gibbons are lesser apes: no tail. See the plate
3. In 1960 Jane Goodall saw chimpanzees?
   Build boatsUse sticks to fish for termitesPlant cropsWrite symbols
   Tool use by chimps changed how scientists defined humans. See the plate
4. Lemurs live in the wild only on?
   BorneoMadagascarSumatraCosta Rica
   Every wild lemur is from Madagascar. See the plate
5. Which tiny monkey was saved partly by zoo-bred animals released in Brazil?
   Golden lion tamarinMandrillSiamangOlive baboon
   Reintroductions began in 1984, with the Smithsonian's National Zoo leading. See the plate