At present, there are a total of 79 genera, 514 species and 708 different taxa (species and subspecies combined) of primates. Indeed, it is amazing when we realise that just since 2000 we have ...

Bonobos are the non-human primates with the most extensive vocal repertoire Our primate cousins have surprised and impressed scientists in recent years, with revelations about monkeys' tool-using ...

Many primate populations and species are critically endangered. However, do trends in deforestation, climate change, bushmeat hunting, and disease provide us only despair, or is there a foundation ...

Primates face extinction crisis New great ape ... which means 'man of the forest' There are 111 known species and subspecies of lemur, all endemic to Madagascar, and this group concluded that ...

But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates protects them from the ... and silvery woolly monkeys were reclassified as subspecies of the brown woolly monkey. The coloring of their ...

A multimethod archaeological study of a spider monkey sacrificed at Teotihuacàn, located approximately 25 miles from Mexico City, provides the earliest evidence of primate captivity and translocation ...