Handbook of the Mammals of the World Volume 3: Primates

Edited by Russell A Mittermeier, Anthony B Rylands & Don E Wilson

Everybody knows that we are members of the mammalian Order Primates, but ask somebody to name some of our cousins and they could at best come up with five or six of the most widely known. This, the third volume of HMW, counts more than 470 of them: 138 species of prosimians - the lemurs, lorises, pottos and tarsiers in Africa and Asia; 156 species of monkeys in the New World tropics; another 158 monkeys in the Old World tropics; and 25 apes, 19 of them gibbons along with six chimpanzees, gorillas and Orangutans. Much of this extraordinary diversity has been discovered only in the past two decades. In the 1980s the count was only 180 species! Now we know so much more of their diversity, and this volume of HMW presents them in all their remarkable variety of shapes, sizes, colors, habits and specializations.

Families covered in this volume are:

• Cheirogaleidae (Mouse, Giant Mouse, Dwarf and Fork-marked Lemurs)
• Lepilemuridae (Sportive Lemurs)
• Lemuridae (Bamboo, True and Ruffed Lemurs)
• Indriidae (Woolly Lemurs, Sifakas and Indri)
• Daubentoniidae (Aye-aye)
• Galagidae (Galagos)
• Lorisidae (Angwantibos, Pottos and Lorises)
• Tarsiidae (Tarsiers)
• Callitrichidae (Marmosets and Tamarins)
• Cebidae (Squirrel Monkeys and Capuchins)
• Aotidae (Night Monkeys)
• Pitheciidae (Titis, Sakis and Uacaris)
• Atelidae (Howlers, Spider and Woolly Monkeys and Muriquis)
• Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
• Hylobatidae (Gibbons)
• Hominidae (Great Apes)

952 pages.

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