Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called 
Awhile back, as part of my "Know Your Primate" series I wrote a post on the slow loris. Unfortunately, I forgot to link to the original source. I say unfortunately because I recently received an email from DuyLoung Nguyen from the FFI Phong Nha - Ke Bang Conservation Programme asking for permission to use one of the pictures in conservation awareness brochures. He is actually looking for pictures of ten species of primates native to Phong Nha - Ke Bang. These ten species are:
1- Trachypithecus francoisi hatinhensis (Vooc Ha Tinh)
2- Trachypithecus francoisi ebenus (Vooc Den tuyen)
3- Pygathrix nemaeus nemaeus (Cha va chan nau)
4- Nycticebus pygmaeus (Cu li nho)
5- Nycticebus coucang (Cu li lon)
6- Nomascus leucogenys siki (Vuon den ma trang Siki)
7- Macaca arctoides (Khi mat do)
8- Macaca assamensis (Khi moc)
9- Macaca mulatta (khi vang)
10-Macaca leolina (old name: nemestrina) (Khi duoi lon)
So I was wondering if any of my readers would be able to help supply pictures of the above species? How about it? Do any of you have any good pictures of the above species (preferably in the wild)? Luong's e-mail explaining what the picture will be used for is below the fold.
I am Luong from the FFI Phong Nha - Ke Bang Conservation Programme, Vietnam. We are implementing a project with the aims of conservation of the endangered primate species in Phong Nha - Ke Bang areas (World Nature Heritage Site).In July 2008, Phong Nha - Ke Bang National park is celebrating the 5th anniversary of becoming a World Heritage Site. On this occasion, We are is supporting the Park with some conservation awareness activities.
There are 10 primate species in Phong Nha - Ke Bang (as below) that we wish to print their images in the conservation awareness material. I have searched in the internet and I found emotional photo of the primate specie in the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park.
I would like to ask for your permission on using these photos for our purely non-profit purposes (http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2007/10/14/know_your_primate_nycticebus_c/). And I would like to ask you if you could share with us with some good quality of pictures of the 10 species of primates in Phong Nha - Ke Bang.
1- Trachypithecus francoisi hatinhensis (Vooc Ha Tinh)
2- Trachypithecus francoisi ebenus (Vooc Den tuyen)
3- Pygathrix nemaeus nemaeus (Cha va chan nau)4- Nycticebus pygmaeus (Cu li nho)
5- Nycticebus coucang (Cu li lon)6- Nomascus leucogenys siki (Vuon den ma trang Siki)
7- Macaca arctoides (Khi mat do)
8- Macaca assamensis (Khi moc)
9- Macaca mulatta (khi vang)
10-Macaca leolina (old name: nemestrina) (Khi duoi lon)
It would be great if you can share with us any pictures that you might have, as this will greatly help with some upcoming conservation projects. Please let us know any terms and conditions you may have regarding use of the photos.
We await your reply
Best regardsLuong
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Check out this source:
http://www.discoverlife.org/ap/
They charge, but they are also nice and do not charge everybody for everything.
All my asian primate shots are zoos and they all suck. Actualy, my African primates are all bushmeat, so while they may be good bushmeat pictures, they are not what is usually desired....
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 9, 2008 8:23 PM
A couple of sources we use are:
NHGRI Press Photo Gallery: http://www.genome.gov/10005141 The animals link includes Nomascus leucogenys (but doesn't have the siki part...).
More NIH photos: http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm I didn't look through them all, but there might be some. I thought the species with genome projects might have more.
UCSC Genome Browser Rhesus browser has a Macaca mulatta photo:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?hgsid=109549333&clade=vertebrate&org=Rhesus&db=0
NSF appears to have an image site, but I'm not succeeding with the searches. http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/index.cfm
Maybe some of these primate centers can help: http://www1.wfubmc.edu/wfupc/links/
Posted by: Mary | July 9, 2008 8:25 PM
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your support, if any of you have chance to visit Phong Nha - Ke Bang please contact me, I am sure that I will help you have better understanding about the Park and the primate species in this area.
Luong
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Posted by: Nguyen Duy Luong | July 10, 2008 9:55 AM