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The Barbary macaque's main predators are the domestic dog, [7] leopard and eagles; the golden eagle may only prey on cubs, since it is morphologically not adapted to hunt primates. [38] The approach of eagles and domestic dogs is known to elicit an alarm call response.
Baboon Temporal range: 2.0–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pleistocene – Recent Olive baboon Yellow baboon calls recorded in Kenya Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Cercopithecidae Tribe: Papionini Genus: Papio Erxleben, 1777 Type species Papio ...
The Greek word (Greek: κῠνοκέφᾰλοι) "dog-head" also identified a sacred Egyptian baboon with a dog-like face. [5] Rather than literally depicting a hybrid human-animal state, these cynocephalic portrayals of deities conveyed those deities' therianthropic ability to shift between fully human and fully animal states. [ 6 ]
The Central American squirrel monkey and Panamanian night monkey are almost as small, with average sizes of less than 1.0 kilogram (2.2 lb). [13] [14] The Yucatán black howler has the largest males, which average over 11 kilograms (24 lb). [15] The spider monkey species have the next largest males, which average over 8 kilograms (18 lb). [15] [16]
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Dogs of the Affenpinscher type have been known since about 1600. [2] There were originally thought to be two sizes, the larger size is now extinct. [ 1 ] : 30 The larger size was approximately 30 to 33 centimetres (12 to 13 in), and came in colors of grey, fawn, black, tan, and red. [ 2 ]
Panamanian night monkey, Aotus zonalis DD – may be A. lemurinus VU subspecies; Family: Callitrichidae (marmosets and tamarins) Genus: Saguinus. Geoffroy's tamarin, Saguinus geoffroyi LC; Family: Cebidae (capuchin and squirrel monkeys) Subfamily: Cebinae. Genus: Cebus. Colombian white-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus LC
Squirrel monkey in Yacuma Park, Bolivia. Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. Saimiri is the only genus in the subfamily Saimiriinae.The name of the genus is of Tupi origin (sai-mirím or çai-mbirín, with sai meaning 'monkey' and mirím meaning 'small') [3] and was also used as an English name by early researchers.