How to Use primate in a Sentence

primate

noun
Definition of primatenext
Synonyms for primatenext
  • Many fans took to the comments section to mourn the loss of the primate.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
  • The primate died on Wednesday at the age of 36 due to a cardiac event.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Kong unfreezes himself, and proves once again to be the fiercest primate around.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This is the 2001 habitat of the white fronted brown lemur, a primate that eats fruit and flowers.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But the first primate-to-human heart transplant took place in 1964.
    — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The branch of the tree which led to bears, dogs, and seals emerged tens of millions of years ago; primates branched off the tree many millions of years after that.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • High up in the trees, these primates face threats from birds of prey, like the formidable harpy eagle, and snakes.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • That is, until a fateful balloon pop set the primate off on a rampage.
    — Vulture, 24 July 2022
  • The zoo said the primate, born to parents Hendricks and Hemsworth, is the second blue-eyed black lemur born at the facility.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Enter the langur – or at least, cardboard cutouts of langurs – and men trained to sound like the bigger primates.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Now, a new group of primates have flourished in a jungle-like world where nature has taken over.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As the clip transitions, the primate is then seen sitting with a smaller orangutan.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The indri is a lemur, a primate with opposable thumbs; a short tail; and round, tufted, teddy-bear-like ears.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The newborn primate is the third viable offspring for his 44-year-old dad Lash and the second for 24-year-old Madini.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The first apes evolved about 20 million years ago and are bigger than other early primates.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The primates will even climb to higher ground to scope out their surroundings and avoid other groups, since fights would be costly.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Vivo is not a monkey, but a kinkajou, which is not a primate but in the same family as raccoons.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And proof of the achievement, perhaps unnervingly, showed up in the infant primate’s eerie green glow.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • These are the primates that would later grow in size and sophistication, spreading all over the globe.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The lemurs, whose names have not been announced, aren’t the only new primates at the zoo: On Wednesday, the zoo announced the birth of twin emperor tamarin monkeys on March 29.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Sinclair expects to release results of his study which tests this concept in primates in a few months.
    — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The zoo also welcomed several baby primates in the past few months.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • Lead zookeeper Jessica Gring helped Zoe practice with the toy almost daily in the months leading up to the primate's due date.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Scientists have captured a video of an aye-aye, a kind of primate, picking its nose in a rather gruesome fashion.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Even though this new arrival is Menari's first, the primate has learned how to parent from watching other orangutans at the zoo raise their babies.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The researchers do it by stimulating an area called V1, which is part of the visual cortex, a patch of neurons at the back of every primate's head.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In the clip, a zookeeper at Virginia's Metro Richmond Zoo demonstrated how to nurse using her own infant for the primate.
    — Marissa G. Muller, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most unusual-looking species of lemur.
    — Charlotte Banks, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Humans have more eccrine sweat glands than any other primate.
    — Asher Y. Rosinger, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • That may be a sign of social learning, a skill more commonly seen among animals like primates and whales.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023

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