What primates live in Australia?

Primates can be a mammal including lemurs, bushbabies, tarsiers, marmosets, monkeys, apes, and humans. They are distinguished by having hands, hand-like feet, and forward-facing eyes, and are typically agile tree-dwellers. read more

Consequently, if we assume that the Peninsula mystery beasts were real, and that they were indeed monkeys, perhaps they were macaques that had escaped or been released there by Malay traders visiting northern Australia, with their body size either exaggerated by the prospectors or, with no notable predators in this secluded region, larger than normal specimens having subsequently arisen. read more

Mammals of Australia' by R. Strahan is a revision of this important document. Other books on Australian mammals include: Bryden, M. Marsh, H. and Shaughessy, P. (1998). read more