Primate Skulls for Mammalogy
Primate skull replicas – This collection shows the skeletal traits of our closest living relatives. We feature 1:1 scale casts of chimps, gorillas, and orangutans. Every model is molded from original California Academy of Sciences (CAS) specimens. These casts reveal the robust cranial shapes of the great apes. You can examine the massive sagittal crests on male gorilla replicas. Those ridges anchored their heavy chewing muscles. Our chimpanzee casts highlight pronounced brow ridges and protruding faces. We also include orangutan craniums that show the large canine sockets of these climbing primates. Each 2-part cranium and mandible set is made from durable resin. Made in the USA, these Primate skull replicas stand up to frequent handling in research laboratories. They provide a clear look at the structural changes in the primate lineage.
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Black Colobus Monkey Skull Replica
$170.00Dorsoexternal Massiveness: The dorsoexternal corner of the orbit is notably thick. This is due to a subsidiary crest that runs ventrally for about 10 mm.
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Black Spider Monkey Male Skull Replica
$121.00They have large, rounded orbits that are positioned forward and facilitate the binocular vision necessary for navigating the forest canopy and foraging for food.
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Bornean Orangutan Articulated Adult Foot Replica
$216.00The eye sockets sit within a deeply incurved face. Like all haplorhines, they have postorbital closure. This means a solid bony plate fully encloses the eye sockets.
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Bornean Orangutan Articulated Hand Replica
$216.00The eye sockets sit within a deeply incurved face. Like all haplorhines, they have postorbital closure. This means a solid bony plate fully encloses the eye sockets.
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Bornean Orangutan Female Skull Replica
$197.00They often exhibit a specific Y-5 form. The five-pointed cusp is an ancestral trait and used for grinding nutritious fibrous jungle plants every day.
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Bornean Orangutan Male Skull Replica
$333.00In a study of sagittal suture and age, it was found that the closure of the sagittal suture is highly variable and often age-independent, making it unreliable for age estimation.
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Bushbaby Adult Skull Replica
$91.00Their auditory bullae (ear capsules) are significantly inflated (globular) to enhance acute hearing, allowing them to track insects during the evening.
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Celebes Crested Macaque Monkey Skull Replica
$181.00Additionally, the narrow nasal opening and deep maxillary ridges provide a clear view of the specialized bone structure used for efficient breathing.
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Chacma Baboon Female Skull Replica
$206.00The deeply recessed orbits and thick supraorbital rims provide, additionally, the protective bone shielding the eye cavity for safety in the wild.
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Chacma Baboon Juvenile Skull Replica
$165.00Their interlocking sutures allow for controlled bone movement to handle the mechanical stress of chewing during early development consequently, to prevent fracturing.
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Chacma Baboon Male Skull Replica
$206.00The ossicles amplify mechanical vibrations to ensure precise acoustic transmission through the dense temporal bone for improved auditory awareness.
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Chimpanzee Adult Female Skull Replica
$197.00The tympanic bone forms a distinct tube lateral to the middle ear to support the eardrum and protect the lightest stapes bones among all hominids.
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Colobus Male Monkey Skull Replica
$182.00The Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis), Angolan black-and-white colobus, or Angolan colobus is a primate species of Old World monkey belonging to the genus Colobus.
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Common Marmoset Skull Replica
$109.00Their eyes are frontally positioned, which allows for overlapping visual fields and the depth perception necessary for visually guided reaching and grasping.
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Cotton-top Tamarin Skull Replica
$121.00A complete ring bone that circles the eye socket that helps stabilize their vision while they are leaping or chewing is clearly visable for classroom study.
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Crab-eating Macaque Monkey Skull Replcia
$182.00Nasal incisor bone does not suture with the frontal bone. The cavity features two unbranched, dorsoventrally stacked turbinates and very large sinuses.
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Gelada Baboon Skull Replica
$206.00Broad infraorbital foramina allow for significant nerve passage to the sensitive muzzle area required for complex foraging within dense leaf litter.
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Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Skull Replica
$121.00Distinctive ridges on the parietal bone provide stable anchor points for the chewing muscles necessary to process tough native fruits and insects.
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Hamadryas Baboon Female Skull Replica
$197.00Pronounced maxillary ridges provide structual reinforcement across the rostrum to dissipate mechanical stress during intense mastication of tough roots.
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Hamadryas Baboon Male Skull Replica
$197.00Thin bony partitions inside the nasal cavity optimize airflow and cooling for active individuals wandering through hot desert environments or bushland.
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Mandrill Monkey Male Skull Replica
$227.00Densely thickened frontal pastes above the eyes shield the upper braincase against impact during intense physical competition within social groups.
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Mexican Black Howler Monkey Skull Replica
$182.00Their zygomatic bones articulate with the maxilla, temporal and frontal bones to form the outer orbit and the zygomatic arch for stable muscle support.
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Mona Monkey Female Skull Replica
$182.00Their zygomatic bones articulate with the maxilla, temporal and frontal bones to form the outer orbit and the zygomatic arch.
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Mona Monkey Male Skull Replica
$182.00Their zygomatic bones articulate with the maxilla, temporal and frontal bones to form the outer orbit and the zygomatic arch.
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Three-striped Night Monkey Skull Replica
$121.00Aotus trivirgatus, or The Owl Monkey, also called the night monkey, is one of the only nocturnal monkeys. The huge eyes found in this species allow for more light absorbing…
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Patas Male Monkey Skull Replica
$121.00Patas monkeys have several distinct alarm calls that warn members in the group of predators. Different alarm calls are given by different group members and certain alarm calls are distinctive…
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Philippine Flying Lemur Skull Replica
$91.00Philippine Flying Lemurs have highly distinctive incisor teeth; they are comb-like in shape, with up to twenty tines on each tooth. The second upper incisors have two roots, another unique…
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Philippine Tarsier Skull Replica
$91.00It is a member of the approximately 45-million-year-old family Tarsiidae, whose name is derived from its elongated “tarsus” or ankle bone. Tarsius syrichta is a tiny primate native to areas…
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Potto Female Skull Replica
$121.00The West African potto (Perodicticus potto) is a species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primate. It is found in tropical West Africa. It is also known as Bosman’s potto, after Willem Bosman,…
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Purple-Faced Langur Female Skull Replica
$182.00Loud calls are often used to distinguish between individual Purple-faced Langurs. The elements of a call fall into three categories: harsh barks, whoops, and residuals. Calls occur more often in…
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Pygmy Chimpanzee Adult Male Skull Replica
$197.00Bonobos are distinguished from common chimpanzees by relatively long limbs, pinker lips, a darker face, a tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted, longer hair on their heads.
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Pygmy Slow Loris Skull Replica
$79.00Typical facial features include the overall rufous color, brown rings encircling large eyes, a white stripe from the nose to the forehead, and silvery gray hair at the sides of…
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Red-Eared Monkey Skull Replica
$121.00The Red-eared Guenon is a small, colourful monkey with distinctive facial markings which involve blue fur around its eyes, a brick-red nose and ears, and yellow cheeks.
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Red Faced Uakari Skull Replica
$122.00Its powerful lower jaw forms a pseudodental comb, which allows the uakari to open the hard surfaces of unripe fruits and eat the nuts that most other primates would not…
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Red-Shanked Douc Langur Skull Replica
$151.00They eat peacefully together, not quarreling over food, and have been known to share their food with others. Often, they will share the same clump of foliage and may even…
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Rhesus Macaque Monkey Skull Replica
$181.00The Rhesus macaque is diurnal, and both arboreal and terrestrial. It is quadrupedal and, when on the ground, it walks digitigrade and plantigrade.
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Siamang Gibbon Articulated Hand Replica
$104.00Grooming is one of the most important social interactions among family members. Grooming takes place between adults earlier in the day; the adults groom the juveniles later in the day….
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Siamang Gibbon Male Skull Replica
$182.00Four distinct classes of vocalizations have been documented: booms, barks, ululating screams, and bitonal screams. Females typically produce long barks and males generally produce bitonal screams.
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Sooty Mangabey Female Skull Replica
$151.00When approaching other females with infants, females will use grunts and twitters to signal benign intent. This often leads to unreciprocated grooming from the approaching female.
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Sooty Mangabey Male Skull Replica
$151.00The Sooty Mangabey or Cercocebus atys is an Old World monkey found in forests from Senegal in a margin along the coast down to the Ivory Coast. They are a…
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Squirrel Monkey Male Skull Replica
$101.00Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. Saimiri is the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. The name of the genus is of Tupi origin meaning ‘monkey’…
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Sumatran Orangutan Female Skull Replica
$197.00The Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) is one of the three species of orangutans. Critically endangered, and found only in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Sumatran Orangutan Juvenile Skull Replica
$197.00Juvenile-hood and takes place between 2.5 and 5 years of age. The Orangutan weighs between 6 and 15 kilograms, and does not look dramatically different from an infant. It is…
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Sumatran Orangutan Male Skull Replica
$332.00Once considered a sub-species of the Bornean orangutan, the Sumatran orangutan has now been classified as a distinct species. They are a forest dwelling primate, and is mostly terrestrial but…
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Sunda Slow Loris Male Skull Replica
$82.00The Sunda Slow Loris (Nycticebus coucang) or Greater Slow Loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to Indonesia, West Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore.
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Vervet Monkey Female Skull Replica
$182.00The Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply Vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term “vervet” is also used to refer to all…
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Vervet Monkey Male Skull Replica
$182.00Vervet monkeys have four confirmed predators: leopards, eagles, pythons, and baboons. The sighting of each predator elicits an acoustically distinct alarm call.
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Weeping Capuchin Monkey Skull Replcia
$121.00This species is a medium-sized monkey that has been kept as pets, used in circuses and exhibited in zoos for years. Generally this species is light brown to brown with…
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Western Hoolock Gibbon Skull Replica
$151.00The Western Hoolock Bibbon (Hoolock hoolock) is a primate from the Gibbon family, Hylobatidae. The species is found in Assam, Mizoram, and Meghalaya in India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar west of…
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Western-Lowland Female Gorilla Skull Replica
$333.00The Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in montane, primary and secondary forest and lowland…
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Western-Lowland Gorilla Male Skull Replica
$333.00The Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) frequently stand upright, but walk in a hunched, quadrupedal fashion, with hands curled and knuckles touching the ground.
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White-Handed Gibbon Skull Replica
$151.00The Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the White-handed Gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often…
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White-Nosed Monkey Skull Replica
$109.00The Greater Spot-nosed Monkey or Putty-nosed Monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) is one of the smallest Old World monkeys. It is a guenon of the C. mitis group, native to West Africa…
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Woolly Monkey Male Skull Replica
$121.00The Woolly Monkeys are the genus Lagothrix of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae. Both species in this genus originate from the rainforests of South America.
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Woolly Spider Monkey Skull Replica
$121.00The Woolly Spider Monkey is the largest of the new world primates. They are omnivores, but primarily feed on fruits, leaves and seeds. The Muriqui is the largest monkey in…