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primate

[prahy-meyt, prahy-mit] / ˈpraɪ meɪt, ˈpraɪ mɪt /




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In case it’s not clear, I was a Primate Girl, and a Chimp Girl more specifically.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

Several of the Emory graduate students now working in Benítez' Social Cognition and Primate Behavior Lab read about de Waal's work when they were younger.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Later, at the Missouri Primate Foundation, he lived in a cage alongside other chimps but interacted more with the humans who fed him food like Powerade, french fries and doughnuts.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2024

She later rebranded it to Missouri Primate Foundation and made it a non-profit, but it remained a chimp mill until a friend of Casey’s reached out to PETA.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024

By that time we were almost back to the Primate Building, so we jumped off the tiny train and watched the alligators being fed.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel




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