List of primates

List of primates contains the species in the order Primates and currently contains 16 families and 72 genera. See list of fossil primates for extinct species and List of lemur species. Primates are a group of mammals that includes prosimians, monkeys, apes and humans.

Gray mouse lemur

Ring-tailed lemur

Macaques

Baboon

Brown capuchin

Mandrill

Gibbons

Orangutan

Chimpanzee

Bonobo

Gorilla

Human

There are many species of primates, like this orangutan. Orangutans are a type of great ape found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

Orangutans belong to the genus Pongo.

The male orangutan is the largest primate after the gorilla.

Orangutans have very short legs.

An orangutan and its baby

The face of a male Bornean orangutan

Unlike other apes, orangutans walk on their fists while gibbons walk on their hind legs.

Orangutans are an endangered species.

Orangutans are the largest tree-living animals.

Orangutans have long, strong arms to help them swing through trees.

Orangutans are the only great apes found in Asia.

Orangutans have reddish-brown hair.

Orangutans are solitary animals.

The orangutan lives in the rainforest.

Like gorillas, orangutans belong to the great ape group.

The female orangutan is different from the male.

Male orangutans are larger than the females and have big cheek pads called flanges.

Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)

Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Bonobo (Pan paniscus)

These gibbons are also found in Asia.

There are 18 species of gibbons.

A gibbon in a tree

A gibbon playing

Gibbons have very long arms that help them to swing through the trees.

Gibbons live in couples.

Male lar gibbon ( Hylobates lar)

Female lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)

Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)

Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock)

Humans have five senses.

Humans wear a variety of clothes.

This human is holding a teddy bear.

Humans are the only primates to eat ice cream, hamburgers, potato chips and French fries.

Humans have two eyes.

Humans share 99% of their DNA with chimpanzees.

Humans have longer legs and shorter arms.

Humans have been seen from all around the world.

Humans belong to the same primate group as orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

Humans belong to the same kingdom as tigers, lions, elephants, lizards, cobras, mandrills, frogs, eagles, fish, beetles and apes.

Albert Einstein is one example of a human.

Humans are the only member of the genus Homo.

Humans are fully bipedal.

Human (Homo sapiens)

There are two species of gorillas.

There are three species of orangutans.

Chimpanzees and bonobos look different.

Other primate species include this gorilla.

This gorilla is eating a carrot.

A gorilla at London Zoo

There used to be two types of gorillas: the lowland and mountain gorillas.

Gorillas and chimpanzees walk by knuckle-walking

Apes all have long, strong arms.

This mother gorilla looks after her baby.

A juvenile western lowland gorilla

Western lowland gorillas are a subspecies of the western gorilla.

These gorillas live in a family.

Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of the eastern gorilla.

The mountain gorilla lives in the Virunga Mountains.

This gorilla does not look happy.

An adult male gorilla is called a silverback.

The eastern lowland gorilla is the largest primate.

Eastern gorillas are the largest of the great apes.

A mountain gorilla sitting in a pile of leaves

A gorilla in its natural habitat

Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Cross river gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)

Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri)

Apes do not have tails.

Apes include orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons.

Orangutans spend most of their life in trees.

The Bornean orangutan is one of the three species of orangutans.

The Sumatran orangutan is the second species of orangutan.

Bonobos are sometimes called pygmy chimpanzees.

Bonobos have a part of facial hair lost.

Bonobos have pink lips.

Chimpanzees live in troops

Chimpanzees have black hair.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are very social.

Chimpanzee babies are called infants.

The western gorilla has two subspecies.

Gorillas are the largest of the apes.

The lar gibbon is one of the better known of the gibbons.

Humans belong to the genus Homo.

Humans have one thing in common.

Humans live in the city.

Some humans make music.

A guitar player

The golden lion tamarin has orange fur.

These capuchins live in a troop.

Capuchin monkeys and spider monkeys have prehensile tails.

Female black howler monkeys are tan colored.

The male proboscis monkey has a long nose.

Mandrills are the world’s largest monkeys.

A mandrill at San Francisco Zoo

The squirrel monkey is another type of primate.

The guereza is a type of monkey.

This red-shanked douc has met an East Javan langur.

DeBrazza’s monkey

Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)

Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus)

Red-shanked douc

Golden snub-nosed monkey

Mandrill

Golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya)

Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus)

Common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

The great apes include the genus Homo which modern humans remain, the genus Pan which includes the chimpanzee and bonobo, the genus Gorilla which includes the western gorilla and eastern gorilla and the genus Pongo which includes the Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and Tapanuli orangutan.