primate

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Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.

From Salon

In recent years, she devoted much of her time to activism and charity work surrounding conservation issues, animal rights and endangered primates and climate change.

From The Wall Street Journal

Orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval of all nonhuman primates; a single infant is born and cared for by its mother for seven to eight years before another infant is born.

From Los Angeles Times

Some locals say the primates must have escaped before the disaster struck, as they can sense danger beforehand.

From BBC

Kenyan authorities seized 400kg of giraffe meat as part of the global crackdown and, in Belgium, primate flesh was found.

From BBC