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  • Habitat alteration, hunting and the conservation of folivorous primates in African forests.

    Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests 2008

  • So while it's true that indriids (and other leaping strepsirrhines) do have a few morphological similarities with hominoids, the body of evidence indicate that our lineage went through a cautious climbing, folivorous phase, and not a leaping indriid-like one.

    Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006

  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation.

    Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006

  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A third primate species within the ten-hectare area was the red howler monkey Alouatta seniculus, which had the advantage of being folivorous.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • A third primate species within the ten-hectare area was the red howler monkey Alouatta seniculus, which had the advantage of being folivorous.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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