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• Tiny Mouse Lemurs - M. mittermieri, jollyae, simmonsi

  Published: July 21, 2006, 10:05 am

  Tags: Primate

  lemurs are the smallest primates in the world. The discovery of these tiny critters join other recentlty announced lemur discoveries including Avahi cleesei, the John Cleese/Monty Python lemur. For more check out the National Geographic article, Three New Lemurs Discovered, Add to Madagascar’s Diversity. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:

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• Primate Playmate: Smile, It's Friday

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: Primate Playmate

  [Elmo, a 4-day-old orphaned orangutan. Indonesia, July 26. Image via AP] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Know your Primate: Colobus guereza [Afarensis]

  Published: July 28, 2007, 5:42 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Colobus Species: Colobus guereza Common Name: Black and white colobus, guereza The black and white colobus resides in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It can be found in a wide variety of forest, woodland, and wooded grassland habitats. Read the rest of

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• Know Your Primate Postponed [Afarensis]

  Published: August 4, 2007, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Know Your Primate is being postponed until tomorrow evening. The reason for the postponement is that I am making a trip to the St. Louis Zoo tomorrow and hope to have quite a few pictures of primates to post... Read the comments on this post...

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• Humanness

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Sentience, Apes, Cognition, Humans, Evolution, Primate, Monkey, Orangutan, Animals

  the cognitive tests of the Primate Cognition Test Battery. In areas such as space, quantities and causality, the toddlers and the primates were found to be about equal. For communication, social learning and theory-of-mind skills, the children scored 74 per cent and the primates only 33 per cent.Sometimes it takes an art historian to define

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• Know Your Primate: Presbytis melalophos [Afarensis]

  Published: September 8, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Presbytis Species: Presbytis melalophos Common: Mitred Leaf Monkey The mitred leaf monkey resides in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and western Borneo. They are smallish colobines, weighing about 13 pounds, on average. They are diurnal and live in a wide

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• Know Your Primate: Theropithecus gelada [Afarensis]

  Published: September 16, 2007, 1:14 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Cercopithecinae Genus: Theropithecus Species: Theropithecus gelada Theropithecus was a widespread and diverse genus during the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. Various species occupied most of Africa and parts of southwestern Asia. Today only a single species occurs in the

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• Know Your Primate: Lemur catta [Afarensis]

  Published: September 23, 2007, 7:25 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Order: Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Family: Lemuridae Genus: Lemur Species: Lemur catta Common name: Ring-Tailed Lemurs I must confess that I have a fondness for the lemurs - especially the ring-tailed lemurs. Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post...

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• Know Your Primate: Semnopithecus entellus [Afarensis]

  Published: October 7, 2007, 10:58 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Family: Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Genus: Semnopithecus (formerly Presbytis) Species: Semnopithecus entellus Common Name: Hanuman Langur The Hanuman langer is spread widely throughout southern Tibet and Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They are medium sized to large monkeys

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• Know Your Primate: Nycticebus coucang [Afarensis]

  Published: October 14, 2007, 1:04 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Family: Lorisidae Genus: Nycticebus Species: Nycticebus coucang Common Name: Slow Loris Nycticebus is a genus containing two allopatric species (Nycticebus coucang and Nycticebus pygmaeus). The slow loris is native to parts of Bangladesh, Assam, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, parts of Malay peninsula, and parts

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• Endangered Aye-Aye - Harbinger of Misfortune

  Published: October 15, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Offbeat News, Animal, Animals, Aye Aye, Aye Ayes, Deforestation, Echolocation, Endangered, Extinction, Habitat Destruction, Mammals, Primate, Primates

  destruction, mammals, primate, primatesCopyright © 2007Dieser Feed ist nur für den persönlichen, nicht gewerblichen Gebrauch bestimmt.Eine Verwendung dieses Feeds auf anderen Webseiten verstößt gegen das Urheberrecht. Wenn Sie diesen Inhalt nicht in Ihrem News-Reader lesen, so macht sich die Seite, die Sie

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• Know Your Primate: Lepilemur mustelinus [Afarensis]

  Published: November 3, 2007, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Family: Lepilemuridae Genus: Lepilemur Species: Lepilemur mustelinus Common Name: Weasel or Sportive Lemur The genus Lepilemur contains anywhere from one to eight species - depending on who you talk to. Sportive lemurs live in deciduous forests in Madagascar and are nocturnal and folivorous. Read the

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• Know Your Primate: Xenothrix mcgregori [Afarensis]

  Published: November 25, 2007, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Family: Pitheciidae Subfamily: Callicebinae Tribe: Xenotrichini Genus: Xenothrix Species: Xenothrix mcgregori Xenothrix mcgregori is a subfossil species discovered in Jamaica in 1919, although the species description was not completed until 1952. The find, apparently, consisted of a small mandible, femur, pelvis and tibia.

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• Know Your Primate: Paranthropus robustus [Afarensis]

  Published: December 1, 2007, 8:52 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Superfamily: Hominoidea Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Homininae Tribe: Hominini Subtribe: Australopithecina Genus: Paranthropus Species: Paranthropus robustus Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post...

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• Know Your Primate: Paralouatta varonai [Afarensis]

  Published: December 16, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Know Your Primate

  Primates Family: Pitheciidae Subfamily: Callicebinae Tribe: Xenotrichini Genus: Paralouatta Species: Paralouatta varonai Paralouatta varonai is another subfossil species, this time found in Cuba. Specimens include a nearly complete skull, a portion of a mandible, and various post-cranial material. Read the rest of this post...

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