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This WikiProject aims to help organise our collection of entries about primates. It includes all extant species within the order Primates as well as the extinct species. The project also includes articles related to primate behaviour, psychology and notable primatologists e.g. (respectively) brachiation, fission-fusion society, Frans de Waal, etc.

Hot articles These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 7 January 2025. Update the table now This table is generated by querying the database replica and is periodically updated by a bot. Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update! Edits Article Rating 22 Adapis B 21 Woolly lemur Start 16 Dian Fossey B 15 Bushmeat C 15 Chimpanzee GA 15 Diademed sifaka C 14 Common woolly monkey C 14 Mpox C 9 Monkeypox virus C 7 Harambe B 7 Notharctus Start 7 Timeline of human evolution C ∑ 12 items | Query runtime: 0.84 s | Last updated: 12:03, 5 June 2026 (UTC) End of auto-generated report.

News Did you know 27 May 2026 – Notharctus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Multituberculate15 (t · c); see discussion Peer reviews 17 May 2026 – Diademed sifaka (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Babacoote (t · c); see discussion

Parentage: WikiProject Science > WikiProject Biology > WikiProject Tree of Life > WikiProject Animals > WikiProject Mammals > WikiProject Primates Related WikiProjects: WikiProject Anthropology  · WikiProject Evolutionary biology  · WikiProject Paleontology  · WikiProject Anatomy  · WikiProject Animal rights

Statistics

See also: Primate articles by topic

Primate articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	3	8	9			27
FL	2	2		4			8
FM					22		22
GA	6	1	27	42			76
B	8	18	20	32		7	85
C	8	25	67	135		3	238
Start	1	16	174	435		7	633
Stub		1	52	386		2	441
List		1	4	23	1		29
Category					317		317
Disambig					13		13
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					31		31
Redirect			2	37	311		350
Template					455		455
Assessed	32	67	354	1,103	1,156	19	2,731
Total	32	67	354	1,103	1,156	19	2,731
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,170			Ω = 4.78

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Featured articles

• Archaeoindris
• Babakotia
• Conservation of slow lorises
• Evolution of lemurs
• False potto
• Fork-marked lemur
• Giant mouse lemur
• Golden-crowned sifaka
• Gray mouse lemur
• Homo antecessor
• Javan slow loris
• Lemur
• Lemurs of Madagascar (book)
• Mandrill
• Mesopropithecus
• Orangutan
• Solo Man
• Primate
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Ruffed lemur
• Silky sifaka
• Slow loris
• Small-toothed sportive lemur
• Strepsirrhini
• Subfossil lemur
• Taxonomy of lemurs
• Toothcomb

Former featured articles

• Homo floresiensis
• Human
• Infinite monkey theorem

Featured lists

• List of cercopithecoids
• List of hominoids
• List of lemuroids
• List of lorisoids
• List of platyrrhines
• List of primates
• List of tarsiiformes
• The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates

Good articles

• Afrasia djijidae
• Ardipithecus ramidus
• Australopithecus africanus
• Australopithecus afarensis
• Australopithecus bahrelghazali
• Australopithecus deyiremeda
• Australopithecus garhi
• Australopithecus sediba
• Balangoda Man
• Bengal slow loris
• Bubbles (chimpanzee)
• Central American squirrel monkey
• Chacma baboon
• Chimpanzee
• Chororapithecus
• Collared brown lemur
• Cotton-top tamarin
• Cro-Magnon
• Danuvius guggenmosi
• Denisovan
• Dmanisi hominins
• Dryopithecus
• Geoffroy's spider monkey
• Geoffroy's tamarin
• Gerp's mouse lemur
• Gigantopithecus
• Hadropithecus
• Harbin cranium
• Herto Man
• Homo erectus
• Homo rudolfensis
• Homo ergaster
• Homo habilis
• Homo heidelbergensis
• Homo luzonensis
• Homo naledi
• Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary
• Human
• Indraloris
• Java Man
• Kabwe 1
• Kanzi
• Kenyanthropus
• Lantian Man
• Laomaki
• Mantled guereza
• Mantled howler
• Rita Miljo
• Nakalipithecus
• Neanderthal
• Nycticebus kayan
• ? Nycticebus linglom
• Olive baboon
• William Charles Osman Hill
• Pachylemur
• Panamanian white-faced capuchin
• Paranthropus
• Paranthropus aethiopicus
• Paranthropus boisei
• Paranthropus robustus
• Pattycake (gorilla)
• Peking Man
• Philippine slow loris
• Prince Bernhard's titi monkey
• Pygmy slow loris
• Saadanius
• Sima de los Huesos hominins
• Sublingua
• Sunda slow loris
• Tautavel Man
• Transitional fossil
• Twelves
• Vervet monkey
• White-eared titi monkey
• Yuanmou Man
• Zanzibar red colobus

Former good articles

• Mountain gorilla
• Nicobar long-tailed macaque
• Philippine tarsier

Featured pictures

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  Abyssinian black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza guereza) male head
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  BrownSpiderMonkey (edit2)
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  Coucang
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  Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi) 2
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  Grooming monkeys PLW edit
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  Hylobates lar - Kaeng Krachan WB
• Japanmakaken im Jigokudani Monkey Park bei der Fellpflege
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  Mantled howler monkey and baby (81337)2
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  Northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) female Angkor
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  Olive baboon (Papio anubis) with juvenile
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  Olive baboon Ngorongoro
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  Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta fraterculus) Bohol
• 
  Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) composite
• 
  Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) female Labuk Bay
• 
  Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta mulatta), male, Gokarna
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  Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
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  Sahelanthropus tchadensis - TM 266-01-060-1
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  Samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus) Mount Sheba
• 
  Southern plains grey langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri) female head
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  Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) Peyrieras
• 
  Xiahe mandible
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  Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey

Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username, in alphabetical order. If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project. You may also display the userbox below on your user page by adding {{User WikiProject Primates}}. If you do not wish your user page to be placed in Category:WikiProject Primates participants, add {{User WikiProject Primates |nocat=yes }}. This user is a participant in WikiProject Primates. User Comments 4444hhhh LadyofShalott Aflunters New to Wikipedia, studying as a part of a digital media class. Interested in primates annamargit new to wikipedia, Anthropology student, eager to help Annielogue AshLin Mostly interested in primate behaviour Babacoote Inclined towards strepsirrhines. Bearian Belugaboy C6541 Clumsystiggy Focusing on fossil species, mostly fossils & hum. evolution DocZaius19 Doctor S Monkey Eamon1183 E.middlebrook Gabriel.Hassler Interested in cooperation in monkeys and apes, particularly Erythrocebus. Genesyz Gihan Working as a research assistant of Primate project in Sri Lankan langurs, and leaf monkeys Grungley Hadal Isfisk Jack Hynes Katims90 Interested in social behaviors from altruism to spite Kenyapithecus Miocene hominoids. Killidude Koridas Monkeys and great apes þ Lisapollison Maky (a.k.a. VisionHolder) Primarily interested in lemurs, both living and extinct. I plan to eventually make all Lemur articles GA or better. Marklxb Student at Washington University in St. Louis interested in primate cooperation. Mishac Monkeywire Primate behavior and humanity's relationship with other primates Nowimnthing Nsavalia23 Primarily interested in the social behavior in primates. Ombudsman Paleolithicus Patr2016 Mainly interested in Great Apes, specifically Orangutans. Peter Maas Ratattuta Rlendog Scotth1001 New to Wikipedia. interested in helping with pretty much anything. Also able to translate between English, French, and simple Japanese. thelsmotto Twas Now Primarily interested in the Great Apes, including extinct groups, and the anthropological aspects of primatology; but I'm willing to help with almost anything! Tylbrooks1998 Interested mainly in taxonomy, seems most of the primate articles are pretty good which I'm proud of everyone for :) UtherSRG founding member Y12J Interested in progressive classification of human relatives 00:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC) ZooFari Maintain our portal SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) anthropologist by training, but I mostly do WP:GNOME work on these articles OJefi Interested in primates in general, able to translate between English and Portuguese Inactive: (If you notice one of these users has become active since the date listed, please move them back to the active users.) Joe Klein Since July 2011 DarthVader Since July 2011 MichaelRitchie200 Since April 2011 Huicocos Since January 2011 Ummagumma23 Since December 2010 Primate#101 Since December 2010 somedude101 Since September 2010 JPotter Since August 2010 Exlibris Since March 2010 seglea Since February 2010 Dustin Asby Since January 2010 Anlace Since May 2009 8thstar Since May 2009 KalevTait Since March 2009 Terry Longbaugh Since November 2008 Chocolatl Since October 2008 yojimbo501 Since August 2008 Tannin Since July 2008 Sambostock Since March 2008 Kfc1864 Since November 2007 Cryoboy Since July 2006 Pajamacore Since May 2006 } Taxonomy and references Primate taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. See the discussion for other possibilities. Integrated Taxonomic Information System - an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species. More information is available here. Mammal Diversity Database - an automated database of mammal taxonomy. IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group - an updated list of scientific and common names from the IUCN Primate Specialist Group; as of 2019 chaired by the editors of Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates Mittermeier, R.A., et al Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates, 1st Edition (Lynx Edicions, 2013), ISBN 9788496553897 - updated source for primate classification and information Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition (2005) - this is now one of the primary source for primate classification - use {{MSW3}} or one of its derivatives (such as {{MSW3 Primates}} or {{MSW3 Groves}}) in the reference section. Mittermeier, R.A.; Louis, E.E.; Richardson, M.; Schwitzer, C.; et al. (2010). Lemurs of Madagascar. Illustrated by S.D. Nash (3rd ed.). Conservation International. ISBN 978-1-934151-23-5. OCLC 670545286. – The latest field guide to the Malagasy lemurs; includes 101 lemur taxa. Use {{LoM3}} for references. Primate Taxonomy (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), Colin Groves (ISBN 156098872X) - formerly the primary source Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Primate node - particularly good for relationships among the extant and extinct primates, although some nomenclature differs from MSW3 Noel Rowe & Marc Myers, All the World's Primates (Pogonias Press, 2016), ISBN 9781940496061, another recent source for primate classification and information Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles. External watchlist Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Primates