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• n  an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
• n  a senior clergyman and dignitary
• n  any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

• A gallery of the World Conservation Union's list of the most endangered primates.
• Though primates have been observed trading grooming for food sharing or infant care, this is the first time this kind of exchange has been observed between male and female primates .
• It turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates .

• Primates
• order Primates
• archpriest
• hierarch
• high priest
• prelate
• primate

News & Articles

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• The True Comic Story About 3 Primatologists Who Changed How We See the World
  Primates tells the connected stories of three seminal primatologists, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, deftly interweaving the three women's stories in an account that's equal parts biography and scientific history. Written by Jim Ottaviani and drawn and lettered by Maris Wicks, it draws from the diaries of all three scientists¿as well as a slew of other sources detailed in a ...
  June 12, 2013 - Wired News
• U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
  Chimpanzees would be reclassified as endangered, making it harder to use them in medical research. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research.        
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• US Fish And Wildlife Service Looks To Give Chimpanzees Greater Protection
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Even though chimpanzees are commonly seen in films, television shows, circuses, and at the zoo – the great apes are considered endangered and the US Fish and Wildlife Service ( FWS ) is proposing a new rule that would give greater protection to our fellow primates. “I was so pleased to hear about the proposed rule,” said renowned primate expert ...
  June 12, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Russell Mittermeier in Times Online
  Russell Mittermeier, a primate specialist at the IUCN and president of Conservation International, said: "We have raised concerns for years about primates being in peril, but now we have solid data to show the situation is far more severe than we...
• David Attenborough in Telegraph.co.uk
  Given the differences in response to the Episcopal Church revealed in the responses of the primates, we simply cannot pretend that there is now a ready-made consensus on the future of relationships between (the Episcopal Church) and other... Rowan Williams http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Williams&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEIKrdNVxSp_pyDBFTRJSbPFoRYpQ Washington Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121400868.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHLNJFmJnz_bZTSYsnyN4WZAgbbcw Dec 14, 2007 77472 104426 primates Sir David Attenborough said: This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals. This is the one that connects us directly with them." "Now people can say, 'OK, we are primates. Show us the link'. The link...