Auld Warld pug
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The Auld Warld pugs or Cercopithecidae are a faimily o primates, the anerly faimily in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade (or parvorder) o Catarrhini.
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Quick Facts Scientific classification, Teep genus ...
Auld Warld pugs[1] Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent | |
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Olive baboon (Papio anubis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Superfaimily: | Cercopithecoidea |
Faimily: | Cercopithecidae Gray, 1821 |
Teep genus | |
Cercopithecus | |
Subfaimilies | |
Cercopithecinae - 12 genera |
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The Auld Warld pugs are native tae Africae an Asie the day, inhabitin a range o environs frae tropical rain forest tae savanna, shrubland an muntainous terrain, an are kent frae Europe in the fossil record an aw. Housomeivver, a (possibly introducit) free-roamin group o pugs still survives in Gibraltar (Europe) tae this day. Auld Warld pugs include mony o the maist familiar species o nan-human primates, such as baboons an macaques.