Category: Primates

chimpanzee locomotion has been a great interest factor for zoologists. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) habitually move both bilaterally and quadratic and like the early monkey, hominins have become a common topic…

Science has established them to be monkeys based on several contributing factors. Baboon shares a 98% DNA Match with Humans. There are 5 species of baboons and they are all…

The native of Madagascar, Aye aye, scientific name Daubentonia madagascariensis is the only primate for the ability of woodpecker with its teeth: it uses its anterior tooth-like teeth to find…

Known as Bushbaby, the lesser galago is one of Africa’s primates. Four different subspecies are found in many parts of Africa, from Senegal in the east to Somalia in the…

The Philippine tarsier, scientific name Carlito syrichta in the Philippines, locally known as Cebuano and other Visayan languages, Maomag, Warre Magi, and Mammag of Tagalog, a small native of the…

The Japanese macaque, scientific name Macaca fuscata, also known as the snow monkey, is an endemic Old World monkey species, native to Japan. Macaca fuscata got its name “snow monkey”…

An Aegyptopithecus or the Egyptian ape is a primary fossil caterpillar that, according to the morphology, predicts the differentiation between hominids (APS) and sarcopithecids, Old World Monkeys. Elwyn Simons made…

A Mandrill has a long queue of diet for its survival. Most mandrills eat reptiles, amphibians, and insects as well as other small alike animals. However, mandrills are also known…

Among the lemur species, the native, ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar, in the south and west of the country, are wider in area than other lemurs. A ring-tailed lemur habitat is…

What are the most populous gorilla subspecies? It’s the western lowland gorilla. Of the four gorilla subspecies, the western lowland gorilla is the most common and populous. Since these secretive…