Primate Species Profiles Index

This growing collection gives you a peek inside the worlds of our fellow primates,
​their appearance, adaptations, behaviors, languages, conservation statuses, and more.
​Notice the relationship between how they live and where they live:
How do their habitats nurture them? ​And how do they enrich their environments?

Apes

Bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, humans, orangutans, and gibbons

Monkeys of Africa

Baboons, colobus, geladas, guenons, mandrills, mangabeys, and patas

Monkeys of Asia

Langurs, macaques, proboscis monkeys, and snub-nosed monkeys

Monkeys of Latin America

Capuchins, howlers, marmosets, night monkeys, sakis, spider monkeys, squirrel monkeys, tamarins, titis, uakaris, and woolly monkeys

Prosimians

Galagos or bushbabies, lemurs, lorises, pottos, and tarsiers