Primates

How To Use Primates In A Sentence

• Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
• Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
• As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
• Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.
• Research conducted in nonhuman primates shows male nonhuman primates are more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline. Science Press Release Synopses
• In truth it is the genetic similarity between humans and primates that makes experimenting on them expedient.
• Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
• But what the newly sequenced genome reveals is that the platypus's male-determining gene, the monotreme equivalent of primates' SRY gene, is not located on any of those five pairs of sex chromosomes. Archive 2008-05-01
• Those leaf-eating primates have foreguts where lysozyme is found and may have acquired a new digestive function.
• As a comprehensive report on media lobbying by the Center for Public Integrity demonstrates, when it comes to mutual backscratching, the primates in the National Zoo have nothing over the networks and Congress.