Anthropoid
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Anthropoid may refer to:
- SimianSimianThe simians are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, , and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.- Classification and evolution :The simians are split into three groups...
, monkeys and apes (anthropoids in earlier classifications) - AnthropoidesAnthropoidesAnthropoides is a small genus of cranes. It contains just two species:* Blue Crane, Anthropoides paradisea, resident in southern Africa* Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides virgo which breeds in central Asia and eastern Turkey...
, a genus of cranes - Operation AnthropoidOperation AnthropoidOperation Anthropoid was the code name for the targeted killing of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. He was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office , the acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the...
, the codename for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich