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Simian. The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder ( Simiiformes / ˈsɪmi.ɪfɔːrmiːz /) of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes. More precisely, they consist of the parvorders Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) and Catarrhini, the latter of which consists of the family Cercopithecidae ( Old ...
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes ...
Ape. Apes (collectively Hominoidea / hɒmɪˈnɔɪdi.ə /) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes. Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted for life in tropical forests ...
Category. : Simians. Articles relating to the Simians (anthropoids, higher primates, Simiiformes), an infraorder of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes. More precisely, they consist of the parvorders Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) and Catarrhini, the latter of which consists of the family Cercopithecidae ( Old ...
The "Monkey-selfie" became a theme at Wikimania 2014 at the Barbican Centre in London. [29] Conference attendees, including Wikipedia co-founder and Wikimedia Foundation board member Jimmy Wales, [30] posed for selfies with printed copies of the macaque photograph.
His Vespertilio included all bats, and has since been moved from Primates to Chiroptera. [ 1] Homo contained humans, Lemur contained four lemurs and a colugo, and Simia contained the other Primates. Linnaeus did not think that Homo should form a distinct group from Simia, classifying them separately mainly to avoid conflict with religious ...
Endangered. 1996–2017 [citation needed] The Simien Mountains[ 2][ 3][ 4] ( Amharic: ስሜን ተራራ or Səmen; also spelled Semain, Simeon and Semien ), in northern Ethiopia, north east of Gondar in the Amhara Region, are part of the Ethiopian Highlands. They are a World Heritage Site and include the Simien Mountains National Park.