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Primate meaning
A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos. | A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
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In 2023, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced the formation of a primate’s commission to evaluate current church structures and suggest possible alternatives.
The source added that the meeting was attended by Primate Emeritus of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Primate Sunday Ola Makinde; some Mogajis (family heads) and other prominent indigenes of Ibadan.
Functions can sometimes be exercised in practice ( de facto ), as by a de facto government, without having been granted by law; but since "primate" is today a title, not a function, there is no such thing as a "de facto" primate.
Later it was the National Primate Research Center, currently the Institute of Primate Research, now in Nairobi.
The political area over which primacy was originally granted may no longer exist: for example, the Archbishop of Toledo was designated "Primate of the Visigothic Kingdom ", and the Archbishop of Lyon is the "Primate of the Gauls ".
Using again the example of Linnaean taxonomy, it can be seen that an object that is part of the level Mammalia "is a" member of the level Animalia; more specifically, a human "is a" primate, a primate "is a" mammal, and so on.
Additionally, the lemurs were treated to pies made of a primate biscuit crust and filled with mashed sweet potatoes garnished with almonds and puffed rice cereal.
And we've got some pretty cool nonhuman primate data that suggests a way to solve that problem.
Apart from Primate Ayodele, there was another man of God based in South Africa, Prophet Samuel Akinbodunse who spoke about the presidential election.
A reconstruction of Plesiadapis churchilli, an archaic primate believed to be related to the two recently discovered.
Bring your little monkeys along to meet their primate cousins at Monkey World - Ape Rescue Centre this summer.
Factors such as habitat loss, hunting and the exotic pet trade have imperilled the South American apes, making Taronga's breeding program all the more vital, primate keeper Sasha Brook said.
For instance, our primate relative the Rhesus macaque shows seasonal declines in mood.
He arranged with the Primate Center of Rio de Janeiro to begin trials of different doses of yellow fever vaccines on about 60 monkeys, close relatives of the tamarins, in January 2018.
Human-related threats such as habitat destruction, climate change and hunting have left about 60% of primate species threatened with extinction and about 75% with declining populations.
In a piece of related news, reported that Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, there will be notable protests by tertiary institution students across the nation due to an imminent hike in tuition fees.
In June 2005, Elgin police searched the woods on the city's southwest side for a large primate after several unrelated people reported seeing a 4-foot-tall animal.
In the statement, Primate Ayodele stated that the country will not survive without borrowing money and it will lead to the incapacity of so many states.
Offering prayerful condolences on the death of the Pope Emeritus, Archbishop Martin, Primate of All Ireland, spoke of Benedict's interest in Ireland.
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, on Sunday gave advice to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Yemi Cardoso, to withdraw the new naira notes issued by the previous administration.