Primates

Mammals with grasping hands, forward-facing eyes and large brains, including monkeys, apes and humans.

Subcategories

🐒 Monkeys (11)🐒 Lemurs (10)🦍 Great Apes (4)🐒 Gibbons (2)

28 entries

Angolan Colobus MonkeyColobus angolensisA black-and-white leaf-eating monkey of central Africa with a long, bushy-tipped tail and babies that are born all white.Aye-AyeDaubentonia madagascariensisA strange-looking nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with a long, thin middle finger to find grubs inside.Black-and-White Ruffed LemurVarecia variegataThe largest lemur, a critically endangered fruit-eater of eastern Madagascar's rainforests that raises its babies in nests.Blue-Eyed Black LemurEulemur flavifronsOne of the world's most threatened primates, a blue-eyed Madagascar lemur whose males are black and females are orange.

Bornean OrangutanPongo pygmaeusA critically endangered red-haired great ape of Borneo's rainforests that lives mostly alone in the treetops and eats mostly fruit.ChimpanzeePan troglodytesAn endangered, tool-using great ape of African forests that lives in large communities.Common MarmosetCallithrix jacchusA tiny tree-sap-eating monkey of northeastern Brazil with white ear tufts, usually born as twins.

Coquerel's SifakaPropithecus coquereliA white-and-brown lemur of northwestern Madagascar that leaps between trees and hops sideways on the ground.Cotton-Top TamarinSaguinus oedipus (also called Oedipomidas oedipus)A squirrel-sized, critically endangered Colombian monkey with a wild crest of long white hair on its head.Crowned LemurEulemur coronatusA small, fruit-eating lemur of northern Madagascar whose males and females look so different they were once easy to tell apart at a glance.DrillMandrillus leucophaeusAn endangered baboon relative of West-Central African rainforests whose males have a bright red chin and a mane.François' LangurTrachypithecus francoisiA slender black leaf-eating monkey of southern China and northern Vietnam with white sideburns and bright orange babies.Golden Lion TamarinLeontopithecus rosaliaA tiny, bright-orange monkey with a lion-like mane that lives only in Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest.Gray Mouse LemurMicrocebus murinusOne of the smallest primates in the world, a tiny, big-eyed lemur that weighs about two ounces.Greater GalagoOtolemur crassicaudatusThe largest bushbaby, a big-eared, woolly African primate that comes out at night to lick tree gum and catch insects.Hamadryas BaboonPapio hamadryasA baboon of the Horn of Africa whose males have bushy silver manes and lead small family units within big troops.Lar GibbonHylobates larA white-handed Southeast Asian ape that swings through the treetops and sings loud duets with its mate.MandrillMandrillus sphinxThe largest monkey in the world, whose males have a bright red-and-blue face and colorful rump.Mongoose LemurEulemur mongozA small, gray, critically endangered lemur of northwestern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands that can switch between day and night activity.Red Ruffed LemurVarecia rubraA critically endangered orange-red lemur with a black face and a thick neck ruff, found only on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula.Red-Fronted Brown LemurEulemur rufifronsA fruit-eating Madagascar lemur whose males and females are different colors, and one of the few lemurs not led by females.

Ring-Tailed LemurLemur cattaAn endangered primate of southwestern Madagascar with a black-and-white striped tail, female-led troops and a love of sunbathing.Schmidt's GuenonCercopithecus ascanius schmidtiA colorful African monkey with a white nose and a chestnut-red tail, also called the red-tailed monkey, that stuffs its cheek pouches with food.SiamangSymphalangus syndactylusA long-armed gibbon of Southeast Asian rainforests that calls with a deep boom, using a throat sac that swells as big as a grapefruit.Squirrel MonkeySaimiri speciesA small, noisy South and Central American monkey that lives in big troops and leaps through the trees using its long tail for balance.Sumatran OrangutanPongo abeliiA critically endangered red-haired great ape of Sumatra's rainforests that lives mostly alone in the treetops and eats mostly fruit.

Western Lowland GorillaGorilla gorilla gorillaA critically endangered great ape of Central Africa that lives in small family troops led by a silverback.Wolf's GuenonCercopithecus wolfiA gray, red-saddled African forest monkey named after the person who discovered it, not after wolves.