Primates Sentence Examples

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  • The officials of primates in their turn made similar attempts.

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  • The primates of the 15th century were buried in or near Drogheda.

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  • See Primates.

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  • Primates Investigate the changing group dynamics of captive orphan chimpanzees in a sanctuary situation.

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  • Primates are highly intelligent, social animals with complex behavior.

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  • Plain pawns instead of primates are the only letdown.

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  • Primates range from tiny marmosets weighing only a few grams, to huge gorillas weighing 140 180kg.

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  • It is argued that like in visual system of primates, there is hierarchically organized processing of auditory information.

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  • We know that nonhuman primates share up to ninety-nine percent of their DNA with humans.

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  • Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans, but non-human primates do not form atherosclerotic plaque like humans either.

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  • Letter from the Editor Over the past few months Jim and I have been very busy rescuing more primates.

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  • It is unlikely that genetically modifying primates would ever provide that one vital difference between a treatment and none.

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  • Has been done in experimental animals, including primates.

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  • Eventually the campaign intends to focus on countries that provide animals, initially focussing on wild-caught primates.

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  • Some of the features distinguishing the gorilla from the mere gorilla-like chimpanzees will be found mentioned in the article PRIMATES.

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  • Archbishops rank immediately after patriarchs and have the same precedence as primates.

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  • As to the ancestral stock of the order, it has been suggested that this is represented by certain Lower Eocene European and North American mammals, at one time regarded as primitive Primates.

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  • The two churches of Iberia and Albania at first depended on the Armenian for ordination of their primates or catholici, and in large part owed their first constitution to Armenian missionaries sent by Gregory the Illuminator.

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  • On these grounds Huxley, restoring in principle the Linnean classification, desired to include man in the order of Primates.

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  • Mention of some of the more important species, typifying distinct sub-generic groups, made in the article PRIMATES.

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  • The king made one of her uncles, Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterburyit was three years before he deigned to come over to take up the post, and then he was discovered to be illiterate and unclerical in his habits, an unworthy successor for Langton and Edmund of Abingdon, the great primates who went before him.

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  • The Condylarthra, in their turn, approximate closely to the ancestral Carnivora, as they also do in some degree to the ancestral Primates.

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  • Beginning with the earliest known lemur, Anaptomorphus, this genus shows tendencies towards the anthropoids, and, when we pass up into the Oligocene of the Old World, Adapis is a decidedly mixed type, and probably not far from the common stem-form which gave origin to both suborders of the Primates.

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  • A brief notice with regard to the distribution of the Primates must suffice, as their past history is too imperfectly known to admit of generalizations being drawn.

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  • But Hubert Walter, the archbishop of Canterbury, was determined to have in that position no Welshman who would dispute the metropolitan pretensions of the English primates.

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  • Early resocialization appears feasible following emergency surgery in newborn primates.

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  • Aspirin produces birth defects in primates, but not babies.

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  • Man and other primates excrete uric acid as the final product of purine catabolism as the result of lacking uricase.

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  • It will be home to a number of endangered primates, including chimpanzees.

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  • The fly visual system will be described as a simple but robust and efficient example of visuomotor coordination, before considering vision in primates.

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  • The differences between humans and other primates are too many, too large, and too far-reaching.

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  • Polio, rabies and other vaccines were tested safe in primates but killed humans.

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  • Nearly 45% of the world's most endangered primates live in Asia.

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  • Attending to the social environment of captive primates is fundamental to their welfare.

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  • However, this stock needs to be replenished, and wild primates are still being caught for the vivisection business.

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  • He is a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences inquiry into the use of non-human primates in research.

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  • There were many disputes as to the existence of these primates (see Maitland, Canon Law in the Church of England, p. 121).

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  • Belonging to the family Lemuridae (see PRIMATES) it typifies the subfamily Indrisinae, which includes the avahi and the sifakas (q.v.).

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  • Bates's potto (P. batesi), of the Congo, is nearly allied; but the awantibo (P. [Arctocebus] calabarensis), of Old Calabar, differs by the complete loss of the tail (see Primates) .

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  • They are very delicate animals, difficult to keep in confinement, and in that state exhibiting a gentle disposition, and being normally silent (see Primates).

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  • Like all their kindred they produce only one offspring at a birth (see PRIMATES).

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  • Displaying great variability in the length of the tail, which is reduced to a mere tubercle in the Barbary ape, alone representing the subgenus Inuus, macaques are heavily-built monkeys, with longer muzzles than their compatriots the langurs (see PRIMATES), and large naked callosities on the buttocks.

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  • There is information on avian breeding, nutrition of primates, snakes, iguanas, marmoset and tamarin care, and reptile aggression.

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  • Israeli AV Society sparks campaign to free primates Toward the end of 2001, undercover footage was taken from Israel 's Hebrew University.

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  • Fret Play - Fret Play features transcriptions of several Mudvayne songs including Dull Boy, I Can't Wait, and Internal Primates Forever.

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  • The majority of scientists believed that HIV originated in other primates and was somehow transmitted to man.

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  • Humans and other primates, as well as bats and some birds, are incapable of creating vitamin C in their bodies.

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  • Humans and other primates, however, lack the enzyme necessary to synthesize their own.

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  • In contrast, the Tropics exhibit is an elaborate indoor rainforest complete with tropical plants and waterfalls, and it is home to a range of rainforest primates and tropical birds.

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  • The war was begun by the Greeks without definite plan and without any generally recognized leadership. The force with which Germanos marched from Kalavryta against Patras was composed of peasants armed with scythes, clubs and slings, among whom the "primates" exer tion.

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  • Among primates, a Ceylonese monkey (Macacus pileatus) has been naturalized in Mauritius for centuries, the circumstances of introduction being unknown.

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  • In England the dispute between Canterbury and York was settled by making them both primates, giving Canterbury the further honour of being primate of all England.

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  • A supplementary statement of births, deaths and marriages for each parish was required from the clergy, who transmitted it to parliament through the bishops and primates successively.

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  • Bonaparte was chief, placed them at the top of the class, conceiving that they were the analogues of the Primates among mammals.

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  • From the close of the 12th century, certainly long before the Reformation and for some time after it, the primates of Ireland lived in Drogheda.

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  • Its proximity to Dublin, the seat of government and of the Irish parliament, in which the primates were such prominent figures, induced them to prefer it to Ardmacha inter Hibernicos.

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  • Near Drogheda in later times was the primates' castle and summer palace at Termonfeckin, some ruins of which remain.

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  • Apparently he had made a wrong interpretation of the primates mental attitude, and thought him desirous of a truce, if not ready for a compromise.

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  • The main facts at the present day are, firstly, the restriction of the Prosimiae, or lemurs, to the warmer parts of the Old World, and their special abundance in Madagascar (where other Primates are wanting); and, secondly, the wide structural distinction between the monkeys of tropical America (Platyrrhina), and the Old World monkeys and apes, or Catarrhina.

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  • For the distribution of the various families and genera the reader may be referred to the article Primates; and it will suffice to mention here that while chimpanzees and baboons are now restricted to Africa and (in the case of the latter group) Arabia, they formerly occurred in India.

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  • Osbcrn, "American Eocene Primates, and the Supposed Rodent Family Mixodectidae," Bull.

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  • It's human, unless there's some large primates in your neck of the woods.

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