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Colombo, the primate city of Sri Lanka; it is 45 times larger than Kandy, the country's second-largest city. Countries without a national primate city highlighted in red. A primate city [1] is a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. [2]
Pages in category "Primates of Southeast Asia" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Pages in category "Primates of Asia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Tarsiers (/ ˈ t ɑːr s i ər z / TAR-see-ərz) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is, itself, the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes.Although the group was, prehistorically, more globally widespread, all of the species living today are restricted to Maritime Southeast Asia, predominantly in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
105 species of lizards, in 35 genera from 9 families, are now known from Borneo. The reticulated python is the largest python in the world, and the longest snake in the world. This reptile can have a size of 6 metres (20 ft) or more. The longer snakes have a size of 10 metres (33 ft).
Margays are small, wild cats that live in the evergreen and deciduous forests of Central and South America. They live primarily in trees and use their long, heavy tails for balance.
Khoratpithecus piriyai, which lived 5–7 mya in Thailand, is believed to be the closest known relative of the living orangutans and inhabited similar environments. [20]: 50 The largest known primate, Gigantopithecus, was also a member of Ponginae and lived in China, from 2 mya to 300,000 years ago. [29] [20]: 50
The whole genome of the gibbons in Southeast Asia was first sequenced in 2014 by the German Primate Center, including Christian Roos, Markus Brameier, and Lutz Walter, along with other international researchers. One of the gibbons that had its genome sequenced is a white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys, NLE) named Asia.