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  2. Plestiodon fasciatus - Wikipedia

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    The broad-headed skink, P. laticeps, is similar, and may be difficult to distinguish from P. fasciatus. The former species usually lacks the two enlarged postlabial scales characteristic of P. fasciatus. [7] [8] Adult male broad-headed skinks, with their large size and swollen red head, are readily distinguished from P. fasciatus. [9]

  3. Solomon Islands skink - Wikipedia

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    Male Solomon Islands skinks tend to have a broader head and a more slender body shape than female skinks. [15] Males have a V-shaped pattern of scales just aft of the cloacal opening, which is not present in female skinks. [15] The scales of Solomon Islands skinks are a dark green but are often speckled with light brown or black. [4]

  4. Plestiodon laticeps - Wikipedia

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    Together with the Great Plains skink it is the largest of the "Plestiodon skinks", growing from a total length of 15 cm (5.9 in) to nearly 33 cm (13 in). A male broad-headed skink, illustration from Holbrook's North American Herpetology, 1842. The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance.

  5. List of primates by population - Wikipedia

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    The population of the species has radically decreased over the past decade. [8] Silky sifaka: Propithecus candidus: 250 [9] CR [9] [9] Estimate is believed to be a maximum. [9] Tonkin snub-nosed monkey: Rhinopithecus avunculus: 250 [10] CR [10] [10] Barbara Brown's titi: Callicebus barbarabrownae: 260 [11] CR [11] [11] Minimum estimation. [11 ...

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  7. Sexual dimorphism in non-human primates - Wikipedia

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    Extant primates exhibit a broad range of variation in sexual size dimorphism (SSD), or sexual divergence in body size. [4] It ranges from species such as gibbons and strepsirrhines (including Madagascar's lemurs) in which males and females have almost the same body sizes to species such as chimpanzees and bonobos in which males' body sizes are larger than females' body sizes.

  8. Monkey group exhibits ‘surprising’ bisexual behavior. It’s ...

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    Same-sex behavior has been documented in a wide array of animals, including insects, birds, bats and other primates.

  9. List of largest non-human primates - Wikipedia

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    Typically, Old World monkeys (paleotropical) are larger than New World monkeys (neotropical); the reasons for this are not entirely understood but several hypotheses have been generated. [3] As a rule, primate brains are "significantly larger" than those of other mammals with similar body sizes. [ 4 ]