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- noun Plural form of
nonprimate .
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Trying to extend the method to nonprimates, Dunbar and his colleague Julian Bever calculated NRs for a number of carnivores (both highly social species like lions, wolves, and spotted hyenas, and nonsocial species like weasels) and insectivores (moles, shrews, and the like, mostly nonsocial as far as is known.)
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2008
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