Prosimians {prosimian}| include tarsiers, bush babies, lorises, lemurs, and galagos. They are small, live in fine-branch niches, eat fruit and/or insects, have short muzzles and short noses, have fingernails, have large and widely spaced eyes, and have more than 32 teeth.
smell
They have scent glands, like most primitive mammals, and use scent-marking behaviors for social communication.
vision
Optic tectums receive only from visual-field left or right half, whereas in lower mammals optic tectums receive from left and right.
evolution
Prosimians developed from primitive insectivores.
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