Despite all these similarities, there are some key differences that divide the 505 primate species into 4 groups. Great apes include humans as well as: These are the larger, tailless primates ...

Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special feet with long toes for grasping branches ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine ... variation in this species. Habitat variation may ...

which renders such studies ethically unacceptable in apes and justifies regulatory barriers between these species and other non-human primates for HLS transgenic research. You have full access to ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse ...

and Africa that comprises 504 species of our closest living relatives: the lemurs, lorises and galagos, monkeys and apes of the world. Tragically, approximately 60 percent of primates are now ...

Both species remembered where a useful tool was hidden three years after performing a task with it. Monkeys and apes are essential to the health of the forest. They are seed dispersal agents and ...