Question

Imagine you leave for work and, as you exit your front door, you encounter a primate hanging from the gutter of your house. It suspends itself with very long arms but has a comparatively small body (compared to overall size) and no tail. It smiles at you and see that it has a 2-1-2-3 dental formula. It then leaps acrobatically to a nearby tree and heads off down the street using a hand-over-hand movement (brachiation) punctuated by very acrobatic leaps from tree to tree. You decide:________.

Answer 1

Answer:

That this was clearly a lesser ape (hylobatid)

Explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the most likely case in this scenario is that the ape was clearly a lesser ape (hylobatid). This lesser ape is known as a gibbon and is characterized as having long limbs, which it uses in order to travel from place to place by swinging from one branch to the next. As is the case in this scenario.