P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a half inches long, though its tail is a bit more than twice that length. These threatened ...

However, they hunt and eat antelopes, goats, and smaller primates. Chimpanzees create tools out of sticks to pull termites ...

Accordingly, small primates have proportionately larger neurocrania and shorter faces than large primates (Gould, 1975; Martin, 1990). Size-related shape changes have a cascade effect, as spatial ...

For example, there are small and large leaping primates as well as small and large brachiators. The same can be said concerning quadrupedalists, whether arboreal or terrestrial. These observations ...

As a result, primates were typically housed alone, in small, barren cages. In 1985, the Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act (ISLAA) amendments to the Animal Welfare Act were passed, ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

Research study explores how genetic changes shaped the variety seen across primates — from brain development and body size to diet, vision, movement and survival in extreme environments.