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am a warm-blooded mammal with opposing thumbs. I am able to stand
upright. I have the remnants of a prehensile tail. I am not as hairy as others of my
order but like them, I am intelligent and curious. I am a primate. Can
you guess which one I am?
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| Lemurs | Primates evolved from ancestors that were tree-climbers. Even though some of us have taken to the ground, we still share those tree-climbing traits: freely moving arms and legs, prehensile tails (although you may have noticed that yours has all but disappeared!), flexible fingers and toes, forward-facing eyes to help us judge distances, and a fairly large brain. There
are about 235 species of primates, divided into two groups - the
prosimians, which include the lemurs, and the anthropoids, which
includes us. Look like a relative of yours? Well it is! It's a potto, from the prosimian group.
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| New World Monkeys | |||||
| Marmosets | |||||
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| Apes, Gibbons Mountain Gorilla |
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