primate
Example Sentences
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In recent years, she devoted much of her time to activism and charity work surrounding conservation issues, animal rights and endangered primates and climate change.
Orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval of all nonhuman primates; a single infant is born and cared for by its mother for seven to eight years before another infant is born.
From Los Angeles Times
Some locals say the primates must have escaped before the disaster struck, as they can sense danger beforehand.
From BBC
Kenyan authorities seized 400kg of giraffe meat as part of the global crackdown and, in Belgium, primate flesh was found.
From BBC
The study, which appears in the journal eLife, indicates that certain subregions of the brain may be especially tuned to the calls of particular primate species.
From Science Daily
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