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Imagine You Discover a New Species of Primate

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Imagine you discover a new species of primate. It has a large body size (about 35 kilograms), is sexually dimorphic, appears to spend at least some of its time in the trees, lives in dense tropical forest, and has longer arms than legs. Based on this information only, what can you hypothesize about this new species' behavior and ecology?


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