Order Primates

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I think Abbott did a prosimians poll a long time ago, but this is different

Poll Results

Option	Votes
* Family Lorisidae: lorises, pottos and allies (9 species)	4
* Family Hominidae: humans and other great apes (7 species)	3
* Family Lemuridae: lemurs (19 species)	3
* Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers (8 species)	2
* Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)	1
* Family Lepilemuridae: sportive lemurs (22 species)	1
* Family Daubentoniidae: Aye-aye (1 species)	0
* Family Hylobatidae: gibbons or "lesser apes" (13 species)	0
* Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys (24 species)	0
* Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris (41 species)	0
* Family Aotidae: night or owl monkeys (douroucoulis) (7 species)	0
* Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)	0
* Family Galagidae: galagos (19 species)	0
* Family Indriidae: woolly lemurs and allies (14 species)	0
* Family Cheirogaleidae: dwarf lemurs and mouse-lemurs (30 species)	0

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:53 (seventeen years ago)

I cannot choose between aye-aye or tarsier. Aye-aye was always my favourite, but I do have growing affection for the little big-eyed champs.

― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

haha "allies" -- i think we should calculate this by playin DIPLOMACY instead of votin

― mark s, Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:12 (seventeen years ago)

We're called "great apes" for a reason, peeps. Don't let the side down.

― Aimless, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

OH MY GOD ANYONE WHO CHOOSES OLD WORLD MONKEYS IS MY NEW WORLD ENEMY

I think everyone knows how I feel about various orders of primate by now!

― Abbott, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

I did do a prosimian poll.

― Abbott, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

How could you hate this, abbot?

http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/douclangur.jpg

― Ed, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

VERY EASILY.

― Abbott, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

Smug-ass orange face all hiding needle teeth and the screeches grating to all with a soul.

― Abbott, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

sasquatch. i don't care if it's mythical!

― latebloomer, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://webpages.shepherd.edu/MKYNE01/images/sasquatch01.jpg

― latebloomer, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

I voted 135 species

― viagra falls, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

* Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers (8 species)

No contest! Tarisers are some of the coolest animals ever!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier

Weird that they separate lemurs into so many different families. Also weird that great apes (= chimps, bonobos, orangs, gorillas) are more closely related to humans than to gibbons these days.

MIA: Tree shrews! They used to be primates, but aren't anymore. Here's what Wikipedia says:

Treeshrews were moved from Insectivora to the Primates order, because of certain internal similarities to the latter (for example, similarities in the brain anatomy, highlighted by Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark), and classified as a primitive prosimian. However, recent molecular phylogenetic studies have strongly suggested that treeshrews should be given the same rank (order) as the primates and, with the primates and the flying lemurs, belong to the clade Euarchonta. According to this classification, the Euarchonta are sister to the Glires (lagomorphs and rodents), and the two groups are combined into the clade Euarchontoglires.[5] Other arrangements of these orders have been proposed.[6]

Now they're an order called Scadentia, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeshrew

― xhuxk, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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