1) Primate
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Prosimians are a type of primate that include lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers, but not simians, e.g. monkeys and apes (including humans). They are considered to have characteristics that are more `primitive` than those of monkeys and apes. Prosimians are the only primates native to Madagascar, but are also found throughout Africa and i.....
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(from the article `primate`) Traditionally, the order Primates was divided into Prosimii (the primitive primates: lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers) and Anthropoidea (the ...
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Captive mongoose lemurs, native to Madagascar. Image credit: Primate Center, Duke University The most primitive type of primate. Prosimians are ancestral to all of today's monkeys and apes, including humans. The group includes all of the lemurs, tarsiers, and lorises. Prosimians are typicall...
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(L: pro before; simia=ape; simus flat-nosed) a suborder of primates (the highest order of vertebrates, which includes monkeys, apes and man) that accommodates the three shrews, lemurs, lorisers, tarsiers, bushbabies, and their relatives.
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n] - primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits
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noun primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits
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belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Cf.
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