Portal:Primates/Did you know/4

... that although male Kashmir gray langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide?
... that Geoffroy's spider monkey (pictured) has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a white-headed capuchin?
... that the Guatemalan black howler and mantled howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala?
... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?

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