"Rather, what we're trying to understand is which part of that environment this big primate preferred as its habitat its address, where it lived".
Again, it's easy to panic if you let reports such as this about them "terrorising" the country and a plethora of stories and YouTube videos of them apparently raiding and ransacking homes influence you – after all, we're talking about pretty big primates here.
Lions are part of a group of exotic animals that are the core of zoo exhibits since the late eighteenth century; members of this group are invariably large vertebrates and include elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, large primates, and other big cats; zoos sought to gather as many of these species as possible.
Luckily, our big fat primate brains usually know the difference between a sex toy and the real thing.
Paleoanthropologist Robert Martin of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, agrees that the new paper does "provide the first evidence that metabolic limitations" from a raw food diet impose a limit on how big a primate's brain or body can grow.
If social intelligence in a general sense was crucial to survival and reproduction among these relatively big-brained primates like proto-chimps, then sexual choice has a powerful incentive to look for evidence of social intelligence when choosing a mate.
The finding suggests that reconciliation isn't a behavior unique to big-brained primates.
The island of Madagascar is home to lemurs, big-eyed primates that exist nowhere else in the world.
It just screams primate: opposable big toes and thumbs, no evidence of claws.
A new species of primate, a "big-eyed" and venomous slow loris, has been identified in Borneo by researchers.
