Sentence examples for like primates from inspiring English sources

"I think of it as informational grooming, like primates picking bugs off each other.

These animals look like fish, but the behavior patterns are more like primates and elephants.

Polar bears, like primates and cetaceans, provoke highly visible skirmishes in this ambivalent war of ownership and care.

Crows and their fellow corvids are social animals, much like primates, so theory of mind probably offers significant evolutionary advantages.

The two findings show for the first time that elephants -- like primates, birds, bats and some marine mammals -- are capable of vocal learning.

They use part of their wrist joint like a thumb, so can grasp things with their paws as if they had hands like primates.

While lemur-like primates such as Ida clambered through the trees, tapirs, anteaters and primitive hedgehogs snuffled in the forest.

A riveting page-turner about bonobos — yes, the chimp-like primates — and set in a very near and dire future.

In the 1970s, extinct ape-like primates such as Ramapithecus, living around 10-20m years ago, were presumed to lie on the human lineage.

Forests stretched from pole to pole, the Arctic was inhabited by alligators and squirrel-like primates, and palm trees grew in what is now Alaska.

The known temporal range of supposed primates was extended to about 65.5 million years ago (Late Cretaceous Epoch) by the discovery in Montana, U.S., of five teeth, representing two species of insectivore-like primates that were assigned in 1965 to a new genus, Purgatorius.