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'World's Smallest Monkey' Has The Time of Their Life Getting Their Head Scratched with a Toothbrush
When it comes to primate species from across the globe, they don't get much cuter than the pygmy marmosets of the Amazon ...
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Watch this zoo’s smallest primates take a trip to the dentist
Endangered pygmy slow loris Ernest and black-capped squirrel monkey Nuka were brought into the zoo’s hospital for dental operations. The post Watch this zoo’s smallest primates take a trip to the ...
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Mouse Lemurs
The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a half inches long, though its tail is a bit more than twice that length. These threatened ...
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Endangered species ‘red list’ now includes lemurs and hamsters
Thirteen species have been placed in higher categories, including Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur (Microcebus berthae), considered the smallest primate in the world. The animal is only about 10 ...
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Primate Cranial Diversity
Accordingly, small primates have proportionately larger neurocrania and shorter faces than large primates (Gould, 1975; Martin, 1990). Size-related shape changes have a cascade effect, as spatial ...