primatology
Studying our cousins
Primatology is the scientific study of primates—apes, monkeys, lemurs, and their relatives.
The field combines biology, behavior, and ecology to understand primate evolution, social structures, and cognition.
Primatologists like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey became famous for long-term field studies of great apes: She went into primatology after reading about chimpanzee research.
Tailless higher primate
- monkeyTailed primate mammal
- anthropoidResembling higher primates
- hominoidTailless primate classification
- brachiationArboreal arm-swinging movement
knuckle-walking · bipedalism · quadrupedal · prehensile · opposable · dichromatic · grooming · arboreal
ape
Tailless higher primate
- monkeyTailed primate mammal
- anthropoidResembling higher primates
- hominoidTailless primate classification
brachiation · knuckle-walking · bipedalism · quadrupedal · prehensile · opposable · dichromatic · grooming · arboreal · terrestrial
- biologycells, DNA, cell, biology, gene
- sciencesbiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- natural historynatural history, natural history museum, naturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers
- ologiesbiology, geology, psychology, sociology, ecology
- zoologymammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, ethnography, social anthropology, cultural anthropology
primatologyentomology
Study of insects
microbiology · bacteriology · ichthyology · herpetology · ornithology