This slide share shares the almost unnoticed part of our profession the wild life: the primates.Its a little attempt to lighten up our mates ' The Primates' hidden behind the shadow of negligence. Sakina Rubab, DVM.

1. PRIMATES
Sakina Rubab
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

2. ORIGIN
Primate
Latin word
Prime
First rank

3. DISTINCT LINEAGES
Strepsirrhines
lemurs, galagos and lorisids
Haplorhines
tarsiers, monkeys and apes

4. Orangutan

5. Monkey

6. Infant

7. Lemur

8. Galago

9. Lorisd

10. Tarsier

11. Gorilla

12. Ape

13. Gibbon

14. CLASSIFICATION

15. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
America Africa
Asia

16. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
 Great apes
 Tailless monkeys :tail
 Bonobo smallest hominid
 Weight 30g to 270kg
 Males larger in size
 Quadrupedal
 Catarrhine
 Arboreal

17. LOCOMOTION
Quadrupedalism
Climbing
Knuckle walkingArboreal
Brachiation
LeapingBipedalism

18. FEEDING
Omnivorous
Frugivorous
fruits
Folivorous
bamboo
leaves
cereals

19.  Dental formula
I.C.P.M
 2.1.2.3
2.1.2.3
Total 32 in all
members
Haplorrhini can not
synthesize vitamin C

20. SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
 Very social nature
 Female transfer
 Male transfer
 Monogamous species
 Solitary

21. REPRODUCTIVE STORY
 Pubertal age 8 to 13 years
 Gestation period 8 to 9 months
 Sexual dimorphism
 Littre size usually 1
 Female ceases ovulation during
breastfeeding
 Menopause
 Baby monkey called an infant

22. LEGAL STATUS
 Great Ape Project
 Legal rights to the non human primates

23. STRANGE FACTS
 Monkey brains are eaten in South Africa as a
delicacy.
 Monkeys are eaten in Africa: bushmeat

24. RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE
 Hinduism
Hanuman : human like monkey God
 Buddhism
Mind monkey: restless state of human mind
 Tzeltal people
Mexico worshipped monkeys as incarnations
of their dead ancestors

25. REFERENCES
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate
 http://www.primates.com/primate/hominidae.
html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey

26. THANK YOU