High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Catarrhini is one of the two subdivisions of the higher primates (the other being the New World monkeys). It contains the Old World monkeys and the apes, which in turn are further divided into the lesser apes or gibbons and the great apes, consisting of the orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. They are all native to Africa and Asia. The name Catarrhini means drooping nose or downward nosed, and refers to their narrow, downward pointing nostrils, in contrast with the outward pointing nostrils of the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini).Like the platyrrhines (with the exception of the genus Aotus), the catarrhines are diurnal.

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