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.
Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
The Portuguese monarch praises in round terms the edifying zeal of the primate, but wisely confined himself to his own crusades in India, which were likely to make better returns, at least in this world, than those to Palestine. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
But what the newly sequenced genome reveals is that the platypus's male-determining gene, the monotreme equivalent of primates' SRY gene, is not located on any of those five pairs of sex chromosomes. Archive 2008-05-01
Those leaf-eating primates have foreguts where lysozyme is found and may have acquired a new digestive function.
As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.
Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Archive 2008-04-01
Curious about the stage of fruit maturation preferred by other wild primates, I sent out a brief survey.
Superior intelligence and the use of language distinguish man from the other primates.
Primate behavioral ecologist Sylvia Amsler observed groups of male chimps patrolling the edges of their territory and targeting rivals for brutal killings.
Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
There were male subjects too, but the primate porn did not get a single rise out of their apparatuses.
Lake Alaotra is also home to the Alaotra lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis [image at left]: the only primate that spends most of its life in marshland. Archive 2006-11-01
Like our own hands, those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision.
He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
Microsporidian can infect a wide rage of the invertebrates and vertebrates, especially including the economic insect, fish, rabbits, fur animal, nibbling the teeth and primate.
This suggests the occurrence during primate evolution of a previously undescribed pericentric inversion subsequent to the cluster duplication.
However, these forests contain numerous primate species such as several leaf-monkey species, slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), the region's largest gibbon and found only in Malaya and Sumatra's lowland forests. Sumatran lowland rain forests
However, some primates such as apes, spider monkeys, and lorises have morphological and behavioral specializations that may enhance efficiency during vertical climbing.
Institute investigators their genes with chimpanzees, our clos - are developing and perfecting tech - est non-human primate relative, are niques for handling samples that can much less susceptible to a variety of be obtained without ever disturbing the human diseases such as Alzheimer s subjects, so-called noninvasively disease, breast cancer, and malaria. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Primate biologist Dr David Chivers of the University of Cambridge compared the cast with those from other known primates and local animals and concluded that it was definitely an ape with a unique blend of features from gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee and human. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
Singing evolved independently at least four times among nonhuman primates, contends Geissmann.
Bushmeat is not a new concept in Africa, but the recent dramatic commercialization of bushmeat in central and western Africa has fueled the primate crisis.
There are small primate populations of potto Perodicticus potto, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos, red colobus Colobus badius (EN), diana monkey Cercopithecus diana (EN), lesser bushbaby Galago senegalensi and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes (EN) which are close neighbors of the tool-using population in Bossou. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
The bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas), howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul), and red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) are all eastern Amazonian primates. Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests
This problem is compounded by the fact that humans and other primates lack the enzyme urate oxidase, which is responsible for the breakdown of uric acid. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Even then, it's mostly old-world primates who are trichromatic; for new-world monkeys, only some females (depending on individual inheritance rather than species) are trichromatic. Drunk On Color
Among mammals, the carnivores, primates, and tenrecs all have fairly well-established African connections.
Here we show that the P3A exon is present only in primates and man and it is conserved through primate evolution.
The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.
Three species of primates are endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift, the Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei, EN), the Udzungwa red colobus (Procolobus gordonorum, VU) and the mountain dwarf galago (Galagoides orinus). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
They include unique assemblages of mammal remains, notably hominid and primate records, but also bones of Elaphas planifrons, Stylohipparion libycum, Libytherium maurusium, Anacus osiris, Testudo gigans and T. emys. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
The early Eocene is important for another reason: many orders of fossil mammals (especially primates, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, rabbits, whales, and bats) make their first appearances in the fossil record.
They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
Until now neuroscientists have assumed that in primate brains simple movements are "hard-wired" while complex behaviors are learned. Science Press Releases
Aids, for example, infects some primates without causing illness or death, and has probably lived in them in a commensal relationship for generations.
One of the world's most diverse primates, lemurs range in size from a mouse to a medium-size dog.
The douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus, EN) is a primate species found in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
The only primate is rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta, considered by Blower to number in the region of 40,000 to 68,200, based on surveys by Hendrichs and Khan, respectively, as compared to the much higher estimate of 126,220 derived by Gittins. Sundarbans, Bangladesh
At least one of the devoured primates, an early ape called Proconsul, is thought to have been an ancestor to both modern humans and chimpanzees.
The primates being experimented on in laboratories share over 95 per cent of their DNA with you.
The silky sifaka lemurs are among the most critically endangered primates in the world. Times, Sunday Times
It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
Even within our own class, mammals, roughly 300 new species have been discovered in the first decade of this century—mostly rodents, but also marsupials, a beaked whale and a slew of primates.
The forests of the Albertine Rift are also home to at least 27 other primate species, including lHoests monkey (Cercopithecus lhoesti), the owl-faced monkey (C. hamlyni), and the golden monkey (C. mitis kandti). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
With official equivocation over animal experiments, it isn't surprising that plans for a world-class primate research lab at Cambridge have been axed.
One can agree that LGT will likely not interfere with a robust phylogeny for primates that indeed recreates ancient splittings of their populations, without buying in to the notion that the supposed sisterhood of Thermotogales and Aquificales [two bacterial phyla — OT] revealed by a small subset of their shared ribosomal protein genes reflects an even remotely similar evolutionary process. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The CGß gene first arose in the common ancestor of the anthropoid primates (New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans), after the anthropoids diverged from tarsiers.
Lamarck had already recognised that the descent of man from a series of other Vertebrates -- that is, from a series of Ape-like Primates -- was essentially involved in the general theory of transformation which he had erected on a broad inductive basis; and he had sufficient penetration to detect the agencies that had been at work in the evolution of the erect bimanous man from the arboreal and quadrumanous ape. Evolution in Modern Thought
Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii). Purus varzea
Immediately after the biosatellite was recovered, attempts were made to revive the primate but there was no response to remedial measures.
14 per cent of primate species are highly endangered.
I've been told by several people privy to Russian space primate studies that indicate that without at least 1/4 gee and 0.2 gauss magnetic field levels, the human body will NOT survive more than a year and that human conception may be impossible without these minimum stimuli. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man from the other primates.
This superorder comprises primates, colugos, bats, and tree shrews.
The things to be balanced I guess are, the Primates are in some sense people well equipped to speak for the wholeness of their particular region or local church, at the same time there's a sense that all of our Anglican communities are also synodical bodies in which the senior bishop is not the only voice. Final press conference at the Lambeth Conference
I got a clever little thumb brace gizmo to remind myself that my primate status was temporarity rescinded. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Life as a Lesser Tree Sloth
Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
Genipa americana, Lemaireocereus griseus, Pristimera vernicosa, Ruperchtia ramiflora The Park has isolated populations of caiman (Caiman crocodylus), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), margay (Leopardus wiedii), and primates of the genus Alouatta. Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
The male exhibitionist impulse seems to be similar to the ancient primate urge to groom evinced in girls' enjoyment of combing one another's hair.
Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear.
Notable among these are primates, tree shrews, dermopterans, and bats.
He and others assayed the serotonin-transporter genes of seven of the 22 species of macaque, the primate genus to which the rhesus monkey belongs. The Science of Success
Lead singer / guitarist Johnny Siera owned the stage and the front of the dance floor, hopping to and fro, up and down and onto the sound equipment like some kind of coked-out, hyper-agile primate. Comments for BrightestYoungThings
As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless. Archive 2006-08-01
“Role of the primate orbitofrontal cortex in mediating anxious temperament.” Archive 2008-04-01
In 2006, the number of capuchins at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas, soared and the population grew to 130, said executive director Stephen Rene Tello. Pet capuchin monkeys can turn on their owners, experts warn
Recent findings on the sensitivity of primate olfaction and gustation to ethanol are consistent with this notion.
Instead of having a lawful and real Primate, we will recognize one that is uncanonical, born of schism, sullied by sergianism and ecumenism, and therefore without Grace.
I've also recently posted regarding the supraordinal clade euarchontaglires and the Asian origin of primates at Sinanthropus We flightless primates
As coarb of Patrick Cellach's authority ranged over the whole country; as primate his sway would be no less extensive. St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
The remainder of the volume consists of quite thorough summaries split into five major fossil groups: prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, hominoid primates, and human ancestors.
In recent years, researchers have identified an array of unique behaviors found among distinct groups of primate species, including chimpanzees, orang-utans, and capuchin monkeys, and associated them with culture.
Between 30 million and 35 million years ago, however, our primate ancestors began to develop the trichromatic color sensitivity that humans, apes, and Old World monkeys possess today.
THE HUMAN BRAIN The suborder including all the remaining primates is Anthro-poidea (an'throh-poi'dee-uh; "manlike" G), and within this grouping are the monkeys, apes, and man himself. The Human Brain
The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas.
These, incidentally, are the countries that have the largest number of endangered primate species.
Numerous primates, including chimps, baboons, black lemurs and capuchins, dip into the jungle pharmacy to combat parasites.
He was made the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland last year.
In human societies, as in primate groups, lower status means less personal control.
Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
In a report highlighting the 25 most endangered primate species, conservationists have outlined the desperate plight of primates from Madagascar, Africa, Asia and Central and South America, with some populations down to just a few dozen in number. golden headed langur, which is found only on the island of Cat Ba in north-eastern Vietnam, is down to 60 to 70 individuals. The Guardian World News
When monkeys were inoculated with the vaccines, the primates' immune systems mounted a response against either the Ebola or Marburg virus.
On the whole, the hedgehog appeared to evolve at a rate not significantly different from those of Primates, Proboscidea, and Rodentia but faster than those of Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla.
Thus the kingdom Animalia contained the class Vertebrata, which contained the order Primates, which contained the genus Homo with the species sapiens - humanity.
More than 30 of the nearly 200 mammals found in the Ethiopian Highlands are found nowhere else, including a remarkable six endemic genera, four of which are monotypic: three rodents (Megadendromus, Muriculus, and Nilopegamys) and one primate, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
Unlike Primates, extreme differences in diet can be found in other mammalian orders such as Carnivora.
The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas.
For example, among polygynous mammals, and thus among most primates, mothers in the best physical condition were originally expected to overproduce males.
The extract demonstrates the importance of nuancing many approaches to the study of society - human or primate - and she achieves this by reflecting simultaneously on identity and difference in her discussions.
Comparing primates to humans makes apes of us all.
The lake is home a troop of rare lemurs - a primate species indigenous to Madagascar.
The ancient teeth and jawbones of the tiny, monkeylike creatures shed new light on the poorly understood evolution of early anthropoids, a suborder of primates that includes apes, monkeys, and humans.
Primates, including humans, have three cones and can thus distinguish three of the primary color phases, giving us trichromatic vision, or high color resolution.
14 per cent of primate species are highly endangered.
So far, the most compelling evidence she provides concerns the relationship between orbit convergence (movement of the eyes from the sides to the front of the face) and the activity of parvocellular and magnocellular neurons in the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) of the primate thalamus. Archive 2006-07-01
Several serial duplications in the beta subunit are found in apes and Old World monkeys but not other primates.
Could some birds really be as intelligent as primates such as chimpanzees or bonobos?
While the extendable flaps of indriids and some other primates are proportionally smaller than the patagia of most gliding and flying tetrapods, they are in the same place and seem to serve the same function, so it seems appropriate to give them this name. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
Again, the capuchin monkey cannot be unequivocally assigned to either the typical anthropoid or nonprimate pattern.
While still at university, although she had never camped in the wild or even traveled outside the United States, she received a small grant to study sakis, a small primate that lives in little-explored areas of Guyana.
The existence of behavioral chains indicates that olfactory or haptic cues are important to primates, but such hypotheses must eventually be tested by careful direct observation in the field or laboratory.
These are home to several fauna like the endangered Nilgiri tahr, marten and primates like the langur.
Other experiments find the same numerical understanding in nonhuman primates, including macaques and tamarins, and in dogs. Is God an Accident?
They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
Besides eating fruit, primates consume leaves, nuts, insects, and other prey.
However, the rate of GH evolution in the bushbaby (a prosimian) was similar to those in nonprimates.
Lots of animals, including many primates, engage in coercive sex. The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry”
In the past three decades, it has been demonstrated that grafts of dopaminergic neurons derived from fetal and/or embryonic cells survive, reinnervate appropriate targets, and function in vivo in rodent and non-human primate PD models PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The new primate, known as the highland mangabey, was identified by two independent research teams working in separate locations in southern Tanzania.
These relationships, in primate societies, are maintained by grooming (which is to say, by exhibitions of care). Archive 2008-09-01
Stuart said the same approach could be applied to a range of species in Asia, including the wild water buffalo, several types of primates and the gaur, the largest cattle on earth. Experts call for protecting sites in Asia to ensure the survival of the tiger
In terms of economic, cultural and political activities, therefore, the primate city had little competition.
The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
However, in the anthropoid primates, which include the monkeys and apes, eliminating sexual motivation does not eliminate the capacity for sexual arousal and mating.
With the exception of a few anomalous primate genomes, such as the hylobatids, most of the catarrhine primates appear to possess very large, conserved ancient linkage groups.
Accordingly, the hypothesized deterrence of ethanol to frugivorous vertebrates, or specifically primates, is unsubstantiated.
The most famous of the island's animals are lemurs, large-eyed primates that leap through the trees.
The hominid fossil record shows a very clear progression in all of the key human traits - brain size relative to body size, bipedality, dentition, the use of tools, and cultural sophistication - from the miocene primates to modern humans.
I'm referring to non-human primates, most commonly referred to as monkeys. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Over two hundred species of mammals are found here including jaguars (Panthera onca), ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), tapirs (Tapirus terrestris), and a number of primate species. Monte Alegre varzea
The rich fossil record from the early Eocene Bighorn Basin includes the remains of the most ancient primates, hoofed animals, and carnivores.
However, the man-woman pair bond and man child pair bond are not paralleled by any terrestrial primate nor many mammals.
Of the primates, the endemic species Javan gibbon Hylobates moloch (CR) and Javan leaf monkey Presbytis comata (EN) occur locally along with the endemic silvered leaf monkey P. cristata, while crab-eating macaque Macaca fascicularis (LR) is found throughout the park. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
The researchers said capuchins are well-suited subjects for study since they are relatively large-brained primates, skilled problem solvers, and a close evolutionary neighbor to humans.
Prominent and distinctive in this profile are the nose and the well-defined chin separating modern humans both from prehuman ancestors and from other, contemporary primates.
These are home to several fauna like the endangered Nilgiri tahr, marten and primates like the langur.
To understand how the visual system overcomes this problem, we used a multielectrode array to record from hundreds of ganglion cells in isolated patches of peripheral primate retina. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
No one lightly goes into experimenting on primates or any other animal.
It could be a marsupial rat or mole or something opossumlike, or a rodent, insectivore, or even a primate akin to a tarsier or loris.
The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates.
It transpired that there were no rules in the 1950s about which primate cells to use for growing polio vaccines: any species could be used provided it made good cultures.
Here I show that softening texture also characterizes the fruit ripening process, and that color is of ambiguous importance to primates possessing trichromatic vision.
These include two of the six Malagasy endemic baobab species (Adansonia grandidieri and A. suarezensis), two species or subspecies of primate, Perrier's sifaka and golden crowned sifaka, western forest rat, and ploughshare tortoise. Madagascar dry deciduous forests
Today there is a variety of extant species that parasitize birds, reptiles, and rodents, as well as human and nonhuman primates.
Primates are rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta and langur Presbytis entellus. Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
Worse, it revealed that her natural hairline went so low down the nape of her neck as to qualify her for primate status. JUST BETWEEN US
The title exarch is here applied to the primate of a group of provincial churches, as it had been used by Ibas, bishop of Edema, at his trial in NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Until now, babbling had been observed only in humans and a few primates, such as pygmy marmosets.
Unlike other primates, the human foot is not prehensile - that is, not able to grasp objects with the aid of an opposed first digit like the thumb.
Hujusmodi errores excerpti sunt de hæresibus dicti Johannis Wykliff hæresiarchæ, damnati Londoniis in Anglia, anno Domini MCCCLXXX, per primatem Angliæ, et tredecim episcopos, ae magistros in sacra theologia triginta, ex dialogo, trialogo, et aliis suis libris. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
It was in fact a spiral trochoid joint with a cuneiform convexity in all the simian primates except for the humans.
Well, according to “Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans” (Wrangham, Wilson, and Muller 2006, Primates 47: 1) Matthew Yglesias » The Tragedy of Agriculture
Like primate competitors for dominant-male status, each of them preferred to announce to the pack just how much of a bampot (or steamer, or zoomer) he was, perhaps to deter challengers. Boiling a Frog
The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
Are there aerodynamic effects in leaping prosimian primates? Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
He therefore persuaded the primate of Numidia to consecrate Augustine to be coadjutor bishop of Hippo.
Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate.
The dichotomic segregation of AOB glomeruli has been described in opossums, rodents and rabbits, while Primates and Laurasiatheres present the Gαi2-pathway only, or none at all (such as apes, some bats and aquatic species). ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The primate ventral prefrontal cortex contains two densely interconnected subregions: a lateral/orbital cortex processing primarily sensory/exteroceptive information, and a ventromedial cortex processing primarily visceroappetitive/interoceptive information.
Now we're learning that lower primates can get the blues, too.
Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
In April, I attended the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion in my capacity as staff to the Presiding Bishop.
The code states: "Primates used for entertainment and in the media are often removed from their social group and hand-reared, causing distress to the infant, mother and other members of the group. Animal charities want Costa Coffee to drop advert that stars monkeys
The celebrated eighteenth-century systematizer Carolus Linnaeus also located people firmly within the animal kingdom, constructing the primate order to accommodate humans, apes, monkeys, prosimians, and bats.
The term primate was at once substituted for that of metropolitan, since the archbishops of Canterbury did not claim the right to exercise an administrative authority within the see of The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
Superior intelligence and the use of lauguage distinguish man the other primates.
With nonhuman primates like macaques, the learning process occurs through observation.
Such as the finding that primates apparently traded olfactory receptor genes for trichromatic vision. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
Primates, insectivores, and condylarths are recognized by the beginning of the Cenozoic, and by the start of the Eocene, most modern groups had become established.
I found published tables of data on limb proportions, where it turned out that indriid lemurs are closer to Homo in femur: tibia: pes ratios than any other primates. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
You see it in nonhuman primates, where the new alpha male comes into the troop and mates.
As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly.
An asymmetrical male primate who happens to be a good hunter has his choice among well-favored carnivorous females. Eyes Of The Beholders
As earthbound primates, humans generally interpret the concept of acceleration within the boundaries of rectilinear translation.
Furthermore, he says, the chief networkers in primate species have been female because they are more likely to remain in the group in which they are born and give it coherence over time. Gutenber-e Help Page
The near neighborhood of the place was chosen, in order to deprive her of all plea of ignorance; and as she made no answer to the citation, either by herself or proxy, she was declared "contumacious;" and the primate proceeded to the examination of the cause. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
the subhuman primates
The three analyses showed the same dichotomy with the prosimian sequences always separated from all the other primate sequences.
Presumably, these relatively open habitats favored larger groups as they did for chimps and baboons, the two other open-country primates.
Half a century later many of these behaviors persist and are the subject of studies exploring nonhuman primate culture.
A research proposal on the effects of radiation in primates is just one of twelve studies that NASA has chosen to fund through its Human Research Program grants for space radiobiology research. NASA to Fund Primate Radiation Research | Universe Today
Some of the factors (including differences in testosterone level) which are associated with intrauterine stress are also associated with dermatoglyphic asymmetry in humans and captive primates.
Among the primate species are red howler and wedge-capped capuchin.
Scientists believe that the two branches of primates - apes and humans - diverged five to eight million years ago and evolved along separate paths.
Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops. ZooBorns
Feminists might be surprised to hear it, but females are the dominant sex in most primate communities.
Dr. WILLIAM JUNGERS (Anthropologist, Stony Brook University): When animals walk bipedally other primates it is often in the context of carrying, whether they are carrying food items, stones. Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way
At the April 26th meeting, NIH agreed that such experiments might be pursued in animals, including non-human primates.
14 per cent of primate species are highly endangered.
The apes are a category of primates represented in Africa by gorilla, chimpanzees and bonobo.
For example, primates rely more on vision than olfaction; for rats, the opposite is true.
Previously, primates had exhibited right-hand preferences in captivity but no handedness in the wild, leading scientists to speculate that they became lateralized through interacting with humans.
Hairs found near sightings of a yeti-like primate in India have turned out to be goral (a wild goat) hairs. Archive 2008-10-01
In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories.
A quick Internet search reveals a thriving trade in just about every species of primate, from capuchins to chimpanzees.
In people, nonhuman primates, and other mammals with relatively large brains, the cerebral cortex's convolutions permit its large surface area to cram inside the skull.

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