Later, blood samples from various primates : hominoids, Old World monkeys, New World monkeys and prosimians were probed using a fluorescently labeled HERV-W element derived from the gorilla fosmid library.
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In 1997, the center began a program to reintroduce black-and-white ruffed lemurs into the Betampona Natural Reserve in Madagascar, the first return of any prosimian primates to the island nation.
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Other than a standoff with an opportunistic great horned owl who built a nest in the prosimian primates'habitat a few years ago, there have been few incidents at the lemur reserve, Hoffine said.
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Grooming was seen as the primary function since primates lack the claws needed to adequately comb the fur, although prosimian primates ( strepsirrhines and tarsiers ) possess at least one grooming claw on each foot to compensate.
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A phrase like " All primates that are not prosimians ( lemurs and tarsiers ) or apes " hints at a'ragbag', indicating that further work is required . talk ) 11 : 31, 19 November 2009 ( UTC)
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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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Thus, for example, they showed that in each of the three major primate lineages the prosimians, the NWM and the OWM evolution of some of the class II gene families started anew after a contraction to a single ancestral gene.
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The interorbital distance of the skulls was also compared to five taxa of modern primates in Rasmussen and Simons ( 1992 ), and demonstrated that C . browni had an interorbital distance range comparing it most closely to those of modern prosimians and callitrichids.
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For example, small nocturnal prosimians are typically nocturnal and monogamous, while the larger living lemurs are generally active both day and night ( cathemeral ) and live in small groups ( diurnal ( day-living ) and more monkey-like in behavior.
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The Revealing the Link website uses this taxonomic grouping and states that " Darwinii " is from an early group of primates just prior to diversification into the anthropoids ( monkeys, apes and humans ) and the prosimians ( lemurs, lorises and tarsiers ).
