the flying primate hypothesis is that megabats, a subgroup of Chiroptera (also known as flying foxes), form an evolutionary sister group of primates. The...

(Perissodactyla). The flying primate hypothesis proposed that when adaptations to flight are removed, megabats are allied to primates by anatomical features...

Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which...

chief proponent of the flying primate hypothesis, which was based on the similarity between the brains of megabats and primates. Special emphasis was placed...

extensively in other primates, as well as throughout much of the animal kingdom. The differing rates of sperm competition among other primates indicates that...

care arose in primate species. These include the parental care hypothesis, the mating effort hypothesis, and the maternal relief hypothesis. The parental...

when humans dealt with rain and dew in forested primate habitats. A 2013 study supporting this hypothesis found that the wrinkled fingertips provided better...

nutrients in their diet. Additionally, as has been observed in folivorous primates, they exhibit a strong preference for immature leaves which tend to be...

and the most prominent vicariance hypothesis involves colonization via GAARlandia. Proponents of the hypothesis cite studies of individual lineages...

as the long-tailed macaque or cynomolgus macaque, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia. As a synanthropic species, the crab-eating macaque...

colugos are not lemurs; true lemurs are primates. Molecular evidence suggests that colugos are a sister group to primates; however, some mammalogists suggest...

forelimbs of vertebrates, where the wings of bats and birds, the arms of primates, the front flippers of whales, and the forelegs of four-legged vertebrates...

up to 24 years, but most of them die by 13 years. One of the smallest primates, the cotton-top tamarin is easily recognized by the long, white sagittal...

group of the primates. Euarchonta and Glires together form the Euarchontoglires, one of the four eutherian clades. The current hypothesis, based on molecular...

lensed through anthropocentric thinking; Bruce Bagemihl states that any hypothesis is "necessarily an account of human interpretations of these phenomena"...

3% of mammalian species are socially monogamous, although up to 15% of primate species are. Social monogamy has also been observed in reptiles, fish,...

Saliency Hypothesis, or V1SH (pronounced ‘vish’) is a theory about V1, the primary visual cortex (V1). It proposes that the V1 in primates creates a...

diurnal primate species, however the ability to use auditory cues remains more similar to diurnal primate species than to nocturnal primate species....

Cenozoic. Both land masses, for example, appear to have received their primates by this mechanism. According to genetic evidence, the common ancestor of...

primitive primate skeleton", Phys.org (January 23, 2007). Alan de Queiroz, The Monkey's Voyage, Basic Books, 2014. ISBN 9780465020515 "A new primate species...

non-human primates unable to develop tools beyond this zone, towards levels of human technology. According to the ZLS hypothesis, every primate possesses...

passerine birds, non-human primates, mice, and goats, has led to the proposal of the vocal learning continuum hypothesis by Erich Jarvis and Gustavo...

Lemurs, primates belonging to the suborder Strepsirrhini which branched off from other primates less than 63 million years ago, evolved on the island...

critique of attempts to promote and engineer self-recognition in primates". Primates. 56 (4): 317–326. doi:10.1007/s10329-015-0488-9. hdl:2433/202619...

the primate evolution, is presented by Melchionna et al. (2025), who argue that selection for complex cognition likely drove the evolution of primate brains...

by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired...

This distinction between primates and non-primates has been one of the key lines of evidence in support of the flying primates theory proposed by Australian...

H. (28 September 2007). "14: Discovery and Partial Characterization of Primate Motor-System Toxins". In Bock, Gregory; O'Connor, Maeve (eds.). Ciba Foundation...

1980s. Colugos, also incorrectly referred to as "flying lemurs", were once considered lemur-like primates, but were reclassified as close relatives of bats...

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is an extinct species of primate which lived around 12.5-13 million years ago during the Miocene in what is now Hostalets...