A suborder of PRIMATES consisting of six families: CEBIDAE (some New World monkeys), ATELIDAE (some New World monkeys), CERCOPITHECIDAE (Old World monkeys), HYLOBATIDAE (gibbons and siamangs), CALLITRICHINAE (marmosets and tamarins), and HOMINIDAE (humans and great apes).
    

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Fetus and discoid placenta, monkey

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Surface detail of a macaque brain

Spiral sweat ducts in skin on the sole of a foot

The natural history of monkeys. Illustrated by thirty-one plates, numerous wood-cuts, and a portrait and memoir of Buffon / By Sir William Jardine, Bart. F.R.S.E. F.L.S. &c. &c.

The speech of monkeys / by R. L. Garner.

The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

Key-catalogue of parasites reported for primates (monkeys and lemurs) with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall and Key-catalogue of primates for which parsites are reported / by C.W. Stiles, and Mabelle Orleman Nolan.

Donovan, Charles (1863-1951)

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The natural history of monkeys. Illustrated by thirty-one plates, numerous wood-cuts, and a portrait and memoir of Buffon / By Sir William Jardine, Bart. F.R.S.E. F.L.S. &c. &c.

The speech of monkeys / by R. L. Garner.

The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

Key-catalogue of parasites reported for primates (monkeys and lemurs) with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall and Key-catalogue of primates for which parsites are reported / by C.W. Stiles, and Mabelle Orleman Nolan.

Donovan, Charles (1863-1951)