PRIMATE LOCOMOTION

VERTICAL CLINGER & LEAPER

tarsiers

galagos

sifakas

indris

Low intermembral index (IMI)

SLOW CLIMBERS

Crypsis

Rete mirabile

pottos

lorises

Slow climber with nose to branch

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ARBOREAL QUADRUPED/BRANCH RUNNER

lemurs New World monkeys

Most Old World monkeys

guenon

leaf monkey

SEMI-TERRESTRIAL QUADRUPED/GROUND RUNNER

Digitigrade Palmigrade

Patas monkeys

Baboons & macaques

BRACHIATOR (ION)

Gibbons & siamangs

spider monkeysHigh IMI

KNUCKLEWALKER

FISTWALKER / QUADRUMANOUS CLIMBER