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WikiProject Primates

This WikiProject aims to help organise our collection of entries about primates. It includes all extant species within the order Primates as well as the extinct species. The project also includes articles related to primate behaviour, psychology and notable primatologists e.g. (respectively) brachiation, fission-fusion society, Frans de Waal, etc.

Hot articles 7 edits Ken Allen 6 edits Skunk ape 5 edits Dusky leaf monkey 4 edits Human evolution 3 edits Human 3 edits Jack (baboon) 3 edits Nyanzapithecus 2 edits Lion tamarin 2 edits Monkey selfie copyright dispute 2 edits Harambe These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 17 November 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

News Featured article reviews 29 Aug 2024 – Lemurs of Madagascar (book) (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Slgrandson (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation undated – Draft:Budongo Conservation Field Station (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

Parentage: WikiProject Science > WikiProject Biology > WikiProject Tree of Life > WikiProject Animals > WikiProject Mammals > WikiProject Primates Related WikiProjects: WikiProject Anthropology  · WikiProject Evolutionary biology  · WikiProject Paleontology  · WikiProject Anatomy  · WikiProject Animal rights

Statistics

See also: Primate articles by topic

Primate articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	3	8	9			27
FL	2	2		4			8
FM					12		12
GA	6	1	24	40			71
B	6	14	14	23		4	61
C	11	25	64	115			215
Start	1	19	176	426		5	627
Stub		1	59	365		1	426
List		1	4	24	1		30
Category					308		308
Disambig					13		13
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					31		31
Redirect			2	35	310		347
Template					454		454
Other					1		1
Assessed	33	66	351	1,041	1,136	10	2,637
Unassessed				1		7	8
Total	33	66	351	1,042	1,136	17	2,645
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,876			Ω = 4.82

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Featured articles

Babakotia Conservation of slow lorises Evolutionary history of lemurs False potto Golden-crowned sifaka Gray mouse lemur Javan slow loris Lemur Lemurs of Madagascar (book) Mesopropithecus Primate

Ring-tailed lemur Ruffed lemur Silky sifaka Slow loris Small-toothed sportive lemur Strepsirrhini Subfossil lemur Taxonomy of lemurs Toothcomb

Featured lists

List of lemur species

The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates

Former featured articles

Homo floresiensis

Good articles

Afrasia djijidae Bengal slow loris Bornean slow loris Bubbles (chimpanzee) Central American squirrel monkey Chacma baboon Collared brown lemur Cotton-top tamarin Gerp's mouse lemur Geoffroy's spider monkey Geoffroy's tamarin Hadropithecus Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary Indraloris Mantled howler

Mantled guereza ? Nycticebus linglom Nycticebus kayan Pachylemur Pygmy slow loris Orangutan Saadanius Sublingua Sunda slow loris White-headed capuchin William Charles Osman Hill Vervet monkey White-eared titi Zanzibar red colobus

Former good articles

Human

Mountain gorilla

Nicobar long-tailed macaque

Philippine tarsier

Featured images

see also: Commons:Featured pictures:Primates

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  Bornean orangutan
  Picture of the day for August 9, 2005
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  Mandrill
  Picture of the day for July 22, 2006
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  Hamadryas baboon
  Picture of the day for October 7, 2006
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  Gibraltar barbary macaque
  Candidate for Picture of the Year, 2007
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  Emperor tamarin
  Picture of the day for March 24, 2008
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  White-fronted capuchin
  Picture of the day for May 22, 2008
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  Common squirrel monkey
  Picture of the day for October 11, 2008, Candidate for Picture of the Year, 2007
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  Ring-tailed lemur
  Candidate for Picture of the Year for 2008
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  Brown spider monkey
  Picture of the day for May 31, 2009
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  Bonnet macaque
  Picture of the day for December, 31 2009
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  Barbary macaque
  Picture of the day for 16 April 2010
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  Olive baboons
  Picture of the day for September 28, 2010
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  Venezuelan red howler
  Picture of the day for April 27, 2011
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  Rhesus macaque
  Picture of the day for September 20, 2011
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  Common chimpanzee
  Picture of the day for October 21, 2011
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  Cottontop tamarin
  Picture of the day for November 26, 2012
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  Mantled guereza
  Picture of the day for September 10, 2013

Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username, in alphabetical order. If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project. You may also display the userbox below on your user page by adding {{User WikiProject Primates}}. If you do not wish your user page to be placed in Category:WikiProject Primates members, add {{User WikiProject Primates |nocat=yes }}. This user is a participant in WikiProject Primates. User Comments 4444hhhh LadyofShalott Aflunters New to Wikipedia, studying as a part of a digital media class. Interested in primates annamargit new to wikipedia, Anthropology student, eager to help Annielogue AshLin Mostly interested in primate behaviour Bearian Belugaboy C6541 Clumsystiggy Focusing on fossil species, mostly fossils & hum. evolution DocZaius19 Doctor S Monkey Eamon1183 E.middlebrook Gabriel.Hassler Interested in cooperation in monkeys and apes, particularly Erythrocebus. Genesyz Gihan Working as a research assistant of Primate project in Sri Lankan langurs, and leaf monkeys Hadal Isfisk Jack Hynes Katims90 Interested in social behaviors from altruism to spite Kenyapithecus Miocene hominoids. Killidude þ Lisapollison Maky (a.k.a. VisionHolder) Primarily interested in lemurs, both living and extinct. I plan to eventually make all Lemur articles GA or better. Marklxb Student at Washington University in St. Louis interested in primate cooperation. Mishac Monkeywire Primate behavior and humanity's relationship with other primates Nowimnthing Nsavalia23 Primarily interested in the social behavior in primates. Ombudsman Paleolithicus Patr2016 Mainly interested in Great Apes, specifically Orangutans. Peter Maas Ratattuta Rlendog Scotth1001 New to Wikipedia. interested in helping with pretty much anything. Also able to translate between English, French, and simple Japanese. thelsmotto Twas Now Primarily interested in the Great Apes, including extinct groups, and the anthropological aspects of primatology; but I'm willing to help with almost anything! Tylbrooks1998 Interested mainly in taxonomy, seems most of the primate articles are pretty good which I'm proud of everyone for :) UtherSRG founding member Y12J Interested in progressive classification of human relatives 00:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC) ZooFari Maintain our portal SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) anthropologist by training, but I mostly do WP:GNOME work on these articles OJefi Interested in primates in general, able to translate between English and Portuguese Inactive: (If you notice one of these users has become active since the date listed, please move them back to the active users.) Joe Klein Since July 2011 DarthVader Since July 2011 MichaelRitchie200 Since April 2011 Huicocos Since January 2011 Ummagumma23 Since December 2010 Primate#101 Since December 2010 somedude101 Since September 2010 JPotter Since August 2010 Exlibris Since March 2010 seglea Since February 2010 Dustin Asby Since January 2010 Anlace Since May 2009 8thstar Since May 2009 KalevTait Since March 2009 Terry Longbaugh Since November 2008 Chocolatl Since October 2008 yojimbo501 Since August 2008 Tannin Since July 2008 Sambostock Since March 2008 Kfc1864 Since November 2007 Cryoboy Since July 2006 Pajamacore Since May 2006 } Taxonomy and references Primate taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. See the discussion for other possibilities. Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition (2005) - this is now one of the primary source for primate classification - use {{MSW3}} or one of its derivatives (such as {{MSW3 Primates}} or {{MSW3 Groves}}) in the reference section. Mittermeier, R.A.; Louis, E.E.; Richardson, M.; Schwitzer, C.; et al. (2010). Lemurs of Madagascar. Illustrated by S.D. Nash (3rd ed.). Conservation International. ISBN 978-1-934151-23-5. OCLC 670545286. – The latest field guide to the Malagasy lemurs; includes 101 lemur taxa. Use {{LoM3}} for references. Primate Taxonomy (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), Colin Groves (ISBN 156098872X) - formerly the primary source Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Primate node - particularly good for relationships among the extant and extinct primates, although some nomenclature differs from MSW3 Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles. External watchlist Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Primates