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Hi, I'm Jess, and I'm 22. I live out in the English countryside.

I love all animals, but I've always had a soft spot for Primates.

I have a diploma in Primatology, and another in Zoology. I have a BA (Hons) degree in Media, which I wish I'd never done.

I have recently become a voluntary Ambassador for Wild Futures, a UK based primate charity and sanctuary.

I'm also a huge Potterhead, and would have studied Care of Magical Creatures at NEWT level if only my letter hadn't gotten lost in the Muggle post.

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March 12, 2012

umzoology:

Primates

I received a request for some comparative pictures of primate skulls, so here you go!
Left to right (and largest to smallest):

Hylobates syndactylus (Siamang [gibbon])
Lagothrix lagotricha  (brown/common/Humboldt’s woolly monkey)
Alouatta sp. (Howler monkey sp.)
Cebus sp. (Capuchin sp.)
Aotus trivirgatus  (the adorable three-striped night monkey/night monkey/owl monkey, shot in the face while burrowing in its tree)
Saimiri sciureus (Common squirrel monkey)
Saguinus nigricollis  (Black-mantled tamarin)
Callithrix chrysoleuca  (Golden-white tassel-ear Marmoset)

If you’d like to see some more primate pictures, I posted about some of these guys last week in my Monkey Sale post.

In other museum news, I am currently halfway through transposing some original cassette tapes of Dr. Philip Wright himself conducting a tour and interview in the collection! We haven’t pinpointed the exact date yet, but the recording was completed anywhere from 1989-1991. It is pretty fascinating, so here’s a great quote from Phil about his future worries of the collection (it was not named for him until after his death in 1997):

“All I’m trying to say is that, the result is, that this —these specimens which we have here, the – the total value of them, in the scientific world, is — there’s of course nobody that values them more highly than I do. And if you were to say, suppose then this museum burned down? I mean.. What.. how could you replace this material? What!? Oh, no. Impossible. Here – much of this material here is totally irreplaceable.”