#PrimatePost 🦧👃
#Primates are named after their nose! Catarrhini (OW monkeys, apes) means down-facing 👃 while Platyrrhini (NW monkeys) have flat 👃. Both are Haplorrhini, simple 👃, if compared with Strepsirrhini's (lemurs, galagos, loris) curved 👃!
🧪 #science
📷 at https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.A0001572.PUB3
#Primates are named after their nose! Catarrhini (OW monkeys, apes) means down-facing 👃 while Platyrrhini (NW monkeys) have flat 👃. Both are Haplorrhini, simple 👃, if compared with Strepsirrhini's (lemurs, galagos, loris) curved 👃!
🧪 #science
📷 at https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.A0001572.PUB3
Comments