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My Observation Of Primate In School

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Over the course of the semester I have learns a lot about primates. Some things I already had knowledge of, a lot were things I could not have even thought were primate related. From the (occasional) meat-eating chimpanzee to the shock of lemurs being more primate than weasel my knowledge has expanded a great deal. For this project I chose to observe a primate that I was not too familiar with. I felt as though as soon as someone hears the word “primate” the first thing that comes to mind are either: chimpanzees, gorillas or orangutans. Not to mention that I came into this course with more knowledge about the two New World Monkeys that we were given a choice of so I chose to focus on the White-handed Gibbon. When arriving to the zoo, I was

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