Synonyms for primates
praɪˈmeɪ tizpri·mates

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1. Primates, order Primatesnoun

   an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

   Synonyms:
   order Primates

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1. List of paraphrases for "primates":

   monkeys

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1. Jane Goodall:

   I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey.

2. Zoe Muller:

   The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently.

3. Sue Mousley:

   They are still terribly under weight, some of them look a bit dehydrated ... the condition of most of those primates is just simply not acceptable.

4. Chris Beard:

   To get an idea of what Ignacius looked like, imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half the size of a domestic cat, unlike living primates, Ignacius had eyes on the sides of its head (instead of facing forward like ours) and it had claws on its fingers and toes instead of nails.

5. James Hansford:

   We thought that they had historically been much more resilient to human effects, but in fact they've actually been suffering for much longer than we thought, this will hopefully highlight the plight of gibbons and other primates in particular.