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All Primate Species

This group gathers Mammals subcategory members belonging to the order Primates, defined by forward facing eyes giving strong depth perception, grasping hands and, in most species, feet adapted for climbing, and among the largest relative brain sizes of any mammalian order. It spans the great apes, including the gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo and orangutan, the lesser apes, the gibbons and siamang, the Old World monkeys such as the macaques and baboons, the New World monkeys such as the howler and spider monkeys, and the more distantly related lemurs, lorises, galagos and tarsiers of Madagascar and tropical Asia and Africa. It also holds an extinct fossil hominin known only from bone, whose own sourced description places it among this subcategory's living species entries despite no longer being alive today.

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Viviparous (Live-Bearing) 2
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1. Wikipedia: Taxonomic rank
WikipediaTaxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, group 515490
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kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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2. Wikipedia: Mammal
WikipediaMammal, lead section, group 515490
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All modern mammals give birth to live young, except the five species of monotremes, which lay eggs.
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