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The Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), affectionately known in Brazilian Portuguese as the Mico-estrela or White-tufted Ear Marmoset, is a tiny, highly social, and visually striking New World monkey native originally to the dry, thorn-scrub Caatinga and coastal...
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The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) is a magnificent, heavily furred, and critically imperiled strepsirrhine primate endemic solely to the lush, cloud-draped eastern rainforests of Madagascar. As the largest extant member of the family Lemuridae, this...
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The Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is widely heralded by primatologists as one of the most elegant, visually ornate, and vocally sophisticated Old World monkeys in Africa. Named after Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, in homage to the immaculate,...
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The Red-shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus), universally celebrated among primatologists and wildlife photographers as the ‘costumed ape’ or the ‘queen of primates,’ is arguably the most extravagantly colored, aesthetically striking, and visually...
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The Mantled Guereza (Colobus guereza), widely known as the Eastern Black-and-White Colobus, is an iconic, regal, and arboreal Old World monkey native to the dense tropical rainforests, riverine galleries, and high-altitude montane canopies of equatorial Africa....
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The Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas), revered since antiquity as the sacred baboon of ancient Egypt, is a large, sexually dimorphic Old World primate native to the semi-desert shrublands, rocky canyons, and acacia scrub of the Horn of Africa and the southwestern...
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The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus), historically celebrated as the Barbary ape, is a unique, tail-less Old World monkey and the sole living species of the genus Macaca native to Africa. Belonging to the family Cercopithecidae, this charismatic primate holds two...
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The Pygmy Slow Loris (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus, formerly Nycticebus pygmaeus) is an enchanting, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate endemic to the dense tropical forests of eastern Indochina, east of the Mekong River. Belonging to the loris family Lorisidae, this...
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OverviewThe Senegal Bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), universally celebrated as the lesser bushbaby or northern lesser galago, is an adorable, small-bodied nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the dry acacia savannas and open woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa. It...
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OverviewThe Philippine Tarsier (Carlito syrichta, formerly Tarsius syrichta), locally known in the Visayan language as the *mawag* or *mamag*, is an astonishing, pint-sized haplorhine primate endemic to the southeastern islands of the Philippine archipelago. Measuring...
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