Congo Primates Monkeys Wild Life Souvenir Sheet of 4 Stamps Mint NH

Congo Primates Monkeys Wild Life Souvenir Sheet of 4 Stamps Mint NH

A primate (/ˈpraɪmeɪt/ (About this sound listen) PRY-mayt) is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment. Most primate species remain at least partly arboreal. With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia. They range in typical size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs only 30 g (1 oz), to the eastern gorilla, weighing over 200 kg (440 lb).

Based on fossil evidence, the earliest known true primates date to around Late Paleocene c. 55–58 million years old. Molecular clock studies suggest that the primate branch may be even older, originating in the mid-Cretaceous c. 85 million years ago. The order Primates was traditionally divided into two main groupings: prosimians and anthropoids (simians). Prosimians have characteristics more like those of the earliest primates, and include the lemurs of Madagascar, lorisoids, and tarsiers. Simians include monkeys and apes. More recently, taxonomists have preferred to split primates into the suborder Strepsirrhini, or wet-nosed primates, consisting of non-tarsier prosimians, and the suborder Haplorhini, or dry-nosed primates, consisting of tarsiers and the simians.

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