Primates

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

Subcategories

🐒 Monkeys (6)🐒 Lemurs (3)🦍 Great Apes (4)🐒 Gibbons (1)

14 entries

An Angolan colobus monkey with black fur and long white shoulder fur sitting on a branch.

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.

A black-and-white ruffed lemur with golden eyes resting on a branch.

Black-and-White Ruffed LemurVarecia variegataThe largest lemur, a critically endangered fruit-eater of eastern Madagascar's rainforests that raises its babies in nests.

A Bornean orangutan with long reddish hair climbing among forest trees.

Bornean OrangutanPongo pygmaeusA critically endangered red-haired great ape of Borneo's rainforests that lives mostly alone in the treetops and eats mostly fruit.

A chimpanzee sitting on a branch in Kibale Forest National Park.

ChimpanzeePan troglodytesAn endangered, tool-using great ape of African forests that lives in large communities.

A common marmoset with white ear tufts and a striped tail resting on a branch.

Common MarmosetCallithrix jacchusA tiny tree-sap-eating monkey of northeastern Brazil with white ear tufts, usually born as twins.

A crowned lemur peering out from between tree trunks.

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.

A male drill with dark fur and a colorful rump walking on the forest floor.

DrillMandrillus leucophaeusAn endangered baboon relative of West-Central African rainforests whose males have a bright red chin and a mane.

A bright orange golden lion tamarin perched on a branch.

Golden Lion TamarinLeontopithecus rosaliaA tiny, bright-orange monkey with a lion-like mane that lives only in Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest.

A ring-tailed lemur drinking from a pond with its black-and-white striped tail raised.

Ring-Tailed LemurLemur cattaAn endangered primate of southwestern Madagascar with a black-and-white striped tail, female-led troops and a love of sunbathing.

A Schmidt's guenon with a white nose and a long reddish tail sitting in a leafy tree.

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.

A black siamang hanging from ropes over water.

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.

A Sumatran orangutan with long orange hair sitting in tall grass.

Sumatran OrangutanPongo abeliiA critically endangered red-haired great ape of Sumatra's rainforests that lives mostly alone in the treetops and eats mostly fruit.

An adult male western lowland gorilla sitting on a log and looking at the camera.

Western Lowland GorillaGorilla gorilla gorillaA critically endangered great ape of Central Africa that lives in small family troops led by a silverback.

A Wolf's guenon with gray, orange and white fur standing on a log.

Wolf's GuenonCercopithecus wolfiA gray, red-saddled African forest monkey named after the person who discovered it, not after wolves.