The eSkeletons Project: The Orangutan Skeleton
Grade Levels
10th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
Course, Subject
Related Academic Standards
Author
The eSkeletons Project credits:
Created at the University of Texas at Austin by
Principal Investigator: John Kappelman, PhD
Project Manager (current): Peter Keane
ColdFusion, SQL and Database Programming: Stuart Ross
Contributors: Claud Bramblett, Kerri Wilhelm, Alison Pruitt, Ashley Gosselin-Ildari, Shane Kukkiaton, Jennifer Wolowidnyk, Brigitte Wetz, Eva Garrett, Christyna Solhan, Mulugeta Feseha, Catherine Oheim, Nicole Drane, Adam Gordon, Mary Simmons, and Marsie De Oliveira.
Special thanks to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History for the loan of the primate skeletal materials.
Description
The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information.
The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species.
Click here (The Orangutan Skeleton) or on the website listed below to begin investigating the orangutan skeleton.
Click here for the Anatomical Terms and Glossary.
Click here to download a set of life-sized images of the full adult human skeleton.
