This gallery features photographs of primates, some of our closest relatives in the animal world, from various different countries.
Adolescent male mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei ssp. beringei), Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mother and baby crab-eating or long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), Railay, near Krabi, Thailand.
Male crab-eating macaque or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) baring its teeth and scratching itself, on limestone rock cliff, Tha Lane Bay, Thailand.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) leaping between trees, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Male proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in a tree, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) eating flowers in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest on the banks of the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) mating in lowland tropical rainforest near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Family group of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) backlit in a tree beside the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Female long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) grooming a male in lowland tropical rainforest beside the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Japanese macaques or snow monkeys (Macaca fuscata) at hot springs pool, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan.
Japanese macaque or snow monkey (Macaca fuscata) drinking from a hot springs pool, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan.
Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui) at the base of a tree in subtropical rainforest, Yakushima National Park, Yakushima Island, Japan.
Male Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) grooming a female, Ifrane National Park, Morocco.
Diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema diadema) in a tree (Symphonia tanalensis), Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Eastern woolly lemurs (Avahi laniger) roosting in a tree, Andasibe Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) on bamboo in lowland tropical rainforest, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Indri (Indri indri) in a tree in tropical rainforest, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Red-fronted brown lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in the upper branches of a tree in lowland tropical rainforest, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Red-fronted lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus) on the branch of a tree, Kirindy Forest, Madagascar.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) in a tree, Kirindy Forest, Madagascar.
Pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Female pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Western tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus) in a tree at night in lowland tropical rainforest, Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
Brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) grooming in cloud forest at 1,600 metres in Kosñipata Valley, near Manu National Park, Peru.
White-handed or lar gibbons (Hylobates lar), female and baby in a tree in lowland tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
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