Locomotive Traits in Primates

1. Ring-tailed lemur

1. Lemurs live exclusively in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands. Though its the wild habitation is limited to these islands, the Ring-Tailed lemur inhabits a variety of environments, such as rainforest, subalpine, deciduous forest (a forest made of trees that shed leaves habitually), gallery forest (or a forest by a stream or river) and spiny bush forests. This ranges in anywhere from dense, lush forest to savanna landscapes.
2. The ring tailed lemurs' locomotion includes walking on all four limbs as a quadrupedal and the ability to navigate through trees.
3. These Strepsirhini do not usually brachiate to move or hang from tree branches; their bodies allow them safer travel on the forest floor.
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2. Black-handed spider monkey

1. This species tends to live in the upper level canopies of rainforest, specifically semi-deciduous, cloud, and mangrove swamp forests. They can be found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
2. The black-handed spider monkey is a quadrupedal. Their movement through trees include using their tails for balance and suspension, walking bipedally along tree branches and leaping between trees and branches.
3. Black-handed spider monkeys have developed a shrunken thumb, because of their methods of travel trough the tree-tops in their environment.
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3. Yellow Baboon

1. Yellow baboons live in savannas, open woodlands, and gallery forests through out Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia. Often, their accustomed to small amounts of rainfall and live nearby a water source. 
2. Yellow baboons are quadrupeds with a running style similar to a horse's gallop. 
3. These primates are able to run quickly on the ground in a gallop-like style because of their adaptations.
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4. Western hoolock gibbon

1. This classification of gibbon inhabits dense evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, bamboo forests, and plantations in Bangladesh, north-eastern India and north-western Myanmar, and occasionally Tibet. These locations offer the wet and lush, contiguous canopy that western hoolocks inhabit.
2. Gibbons typically travel by brachiation, which is movement by swinging from branch to branch
3. The primates' locomotion has caused it to adapt long arms and hook-shaped hands.
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5. Central Chimpanzee

1. Central chimpanzees are most commonly found in gallery forests, moist forests and dry forests, which extend into savanna woodlands. They can be found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
2. These anthropoids are knuckle-walking quadrupeds who will occasionally uses bipedalism when holding an object or has hands occupied.
3. Chimpanzees's arms are longer than their legs to allow knuckle-walking.
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Summary: Environment affects not only physical characteristic, but behavioral characteristics as well. For example, the yellow baboons of the savannah develop social groups to protect themselves in the open area. This offers a better alarm system while allowing more time to eat and drink. 

As for physical traits, primarily arboreal primates tend to have short thumbs, hooked shaped hands, and long arms for brachiating. Primarily quadruped primates, tend to have arms longer than their legs, but are still able to manage in trees. 

Sources: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/ring-tailed_lemur

http://www.macalester.edu/~montgomery/spidermonkey.html