Portal:Primates/Did you know/4
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- ... that although male Kashmir gray langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide?
- ... that Geoffroy's spider monkey (pictured) has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
- ... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a white-headed capuchin?
- ... that the Guatemalan black howler and mantled howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala?
- ... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
- ... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?
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