primate

How To Use primate In A Sentence

• Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
• Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
• Likewise, if you told an ethologist that you found a new species of primate that is closely related to chimps, she would instantly know a tremendous amount about this animal and what it might be able to do. Bunny and a Book
• My children could spend hours watching playful monkeys at the primate exhibit.
• As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
• Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.
• In December 1997, a technician at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center was splashed in the eye with body fluid from a monkey infected with Herpes B; she died six weeks later as a result.
• Research conducted in nonhuman primates shows male nonhuman primates are more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline. Science Press Release Synopses
• In truth it is the genetic similarity between humans and primates that makes experimenting on them expedient.
• He offers a fully rounded characterization of a sensitive, self-aware being who just happens to be a lower primate.