The marmosets and tamarins fill a unique ecological role among the anthropoid primates,
one that has not been fully recognized. Many misconceptions—that they are primitive …

Field studies conducted over the past 25 years have documented significant differences in
diet, foraging patterns, and locomotor behavior in sympatric primate species (20, 21, 25, 35 …

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Food is vital for life. It provides nutrients for growth, maintenance, and reproduction, and is
the source of energy that drives the chemical reactions occurring in every cell. 1, 2 However …

Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what
viruses are to the biochemist. They can be analyzed and partly understood according to the …

Unlike humans, who came down from the trees and developed bipedal locomotion,
chimpanzees have remained in the original habitat of our ancestors: the tropical rainforests …

HE BEHAVIORIST studying adaptations for foraging in a nonhuman primate has available a
living, breathing subject. The species on which study focuses is readily recognized from …

Primates of the subfamily Callitrichinae (Callimico, Callithrix, Leontopithecus, and Saguinus)
are small‐bodied New World monkeys (105–700 g) possessing clawlike nails on all manual …

The fossil record of primates provides our only direct evidence of the course of evolution
leading to the present diversity of primate species, and about the nature of extinct forms …

Primates are usually classified as faunivores, frugivores, or folivores. Recent field studies
have shown that plant exudates, mainly gums, are also a significant component of primate …