This week I have a rather nice specimen for you to identify:
As usual you can put your questions, thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below and I’ll do my best to respond.
Have fun!
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
This week I have a rather nice specimen for you to identify:
As usual you can put your questions, thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below and I’ll do my best to respond.
Have fun!
Zygoma 
One of the types of monkeys named after what I thought last week’s one was from ?
Nice link and I can see where you’re coming from with those big orbits, but nope.
Old World Monkey. Rhymes with velvet?
Well, I’d argue it’s in the Old World Monkey clade, but not a Vervet.
Perhaps a primate with a keen interest in the decline of the Roman Empire!? I’d guess with white hands as well?
Not far off!
From the forward-facing eye-sockets this is a primate, and from the dental formula (2.1.2.3) an Old World Monkey (New World Monkeys: 2.1.3.3).
It looks to be an adult as the bones are fused (never sure about this), and from the size of the canines, a male. So, quite small — not one of the Great Apes.
The eye sockets look too round (particularly above the nose) to be the velvet-rhyming monkey, and conversely not round enough for Jake’s idea.
Preliminary guess: From the Far East and sounds like it’s fading away.
On further investigation, I think Crispin has it right. The nasal opening is too broad for a Langur.
I hope you’re right!
I’m too distracted by “sounds like fading away” to come up with my own answer! Is there a Doppler Monkey? Other than that I’m stumped.
Perhaps too cryptic: Langur/Languor
Yep, I was stumped by that clue too!
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Hello!!
I couldn´t understand if anybody did the correct answer, but my first hipotesis when i saw the pictures were that, that skull is from a cebus, perhaps, a Cebus capucinus?? They are so so cute!
Oh well, really god mystery object, i didn´t participate in a while.
XOXO from Portugal