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Orang-utan |
Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) |
Baby gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) |
Baby gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) |
Baby gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) |
Male silverback gorilla standing tall |
Silverback gorilla |
Adult silberback gorilla |
Orangutan hanging on a forest liana in Indonesia's Tanjung Puting National Park |
Adult orangutan with fist-clenched |
Young orangutan feeding while hanging from tree |
Pair of orangutans climbing a large liana in Borneo |
Orangutan climbing while holding a bunch of bananas in its mouth |
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) feeding on canopy fruit |
Eastern gorilla (Gorilla gorilla sp) in Bwindi |
Silverback Bwindi gorilla |
Silverback Bwindi gorilla (headshot) |
Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) |
Silverback gorilla |
Silverback gorilla |
Close up on baby gorilla |
Close up face shot of baby gorilla feeding from bottle |
Close up head shot of baby gorilla licking the hand of a keeper |
Baby gorilla looking towards the sky |
Close up on eyes of young gorilla at rehabilitation center |
Baby gorilla in the arms of a care taker at Evengue |
Young gorilla running
Young male gorilla posturing |
Silverback gorilla near forest edge in Gabon |
Young lowland gorilla |
Adult male gorilla |
Young male gorilla pounding its chest |
Three gorillas in a line |
Rehabilitated orangutan lost in thought |
Mother orangutan with infant in tree |
Ex-captive Adult Male Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) |
Rehabilitated Adult Male Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a rambutan fruit |
Happy rehabilitated adult male Orangutan at Pondok Tanggui |
Captive chimpazee in Uganda |
Eastern lowland gorilla in Bwindi |
Male silverback eastern lowland gorilla feeding | Orang-utan | Howler monkey |
Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) |
Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) |
Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) |
Silverback gorilla with infant male |
Two young gorillas playing |
Adult silberback gorilla |
Rehabilitated orangutans ambling down boardwalk at Camp Leaky |
Baby orangutan clinging to mother orangutan |
Rehabilitated mother and baby orangutans on boardwalk at Camp Leaky
Closeup on face of orang |
Family of orangs laying on boardwalk |
Mother orangutan with baby on forest floor |
Red orangutan eating rambutan fruit |
Young orangutan eating rambutan fruit |
Young orang-utan in Indonesia's Tanjung Puting National Park |
Young orang-utan in Tanjung Puting National Park |
Group of orangs on feeding platform in Tanjung Puting National Park |
Young orang-utan grasping a woody liana while pondering |
Young orang-utan grasping a woody liana |
Young orangutan feeding on fruit |
Mother orangutan with baby |
Young orangutan eating a banana while hanging from a vine |
Orangutan nest in rainforest tree in Borneo |
Adult Male Orangutan in motion |
Adult Male Orang-utan eating a Rambutan fruit |
Adult Male Orangutan |
Rehabilitated Adult Male Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) lost in thought over a pile of rambutan fruit |
Large red male adult Borneo Orangutan on feeding platform at Pondok Tanggui |
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orangutan drinking at Pondok Tanggui |
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) drinking at Pondok Tanggui |
Adult male Borneo Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) at Pondok Tanggui |
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) |
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) |
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orangutan drinking milk on feeding platform at Pondok Tanggui |
Adult male Borneo Orangutan on feeding platform at Pondok Tanggui |
Adult male Borneo Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) at Pondok Tanggui |
Adult male Borneo Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) showing his food |
Adult male Orangutan at Pondok Tanggui |
Captive chimpazee in Uganda |
Bwindi gorilla hanging from a tree |
Silverback feeding while sitting in nettles |
Silverback feeding while seated in leafy vegetation
A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. The English singular primate is a back-formation from the Latin name Primates, which itself was the plural of the Latin primas ("one of the first, excellent, noble"). Colin Groves lists about 350 species of primates in Primate Taxonomy.
All primates have five fingers (pentadactyly), a generalized dental pattern, and a primitive (unspecialized) body plan. Another distinguishing feature of primates is fingernails. Opposing thumbs are also a characteristic primate feature, but are not limited to this order; opossums, for example, also have opposing thumbs. In primates, the combination of opposing thumbs, short fingernails (rather than claws) and long, inward-closing fingers is a relic of the ancestral practice of brachiating through trees. Forward-facing color binocular vision was also useful for the brachiating ancestors of humans, particularly for finding and collecting food. All primates, even those that lack the features typical of other primates (like lorises), share eye orbit characteristics that distinguish them from other taxonomic orders.
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