My Website on Monkeys

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  1. Certain Red Colobus species and the Olive Colobus monkey are hunted by humans and chimpanzees for food.
  2. Squirrel monkeys produce more than 20 vocalizations.
  3. Adult male guenon monkeys sometimes rush after eagles which have caught a family member.
  4. By urinating on subordinates, Male Squirrel monkeys assert dominance.
  5. Silvered Leaf monkeys are silver to dark grey in color, infants are bright orange in color.
  6. Proboscis monkeys are known for the smaller pointed noses of females. Males have long noses, which grow throughout their lifetime.
  7. New World Monkeys, do not have thumbs, including the spider monkey. Squirrel monkeys and Capuchins have pseudo-opposable thumbs, they are the only New World Monkeys of this type.

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  1. It is easy to distinguish monkeys from apes. Monkeys have tails, apes don’t.
  2. Monkeys do not eat the skins of bananas, they peel the skin off their bananas.
  3. 96 is the number of species of Old World Monkeys
  4. Old World Monkeys have large cheek pouches. Cheek pouches help them to feed rapidly and store their food, and swallow it later.
  5. The two sub families of Old World Monkeys are generalists and specialists. Specialists mainly eat leaves and generalists eat almost everything.
  6. There are 81 species of New World Monkeys in the Amazon basin, as of 2008. New ones are continually being discovered.

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  1. It is easy to distinguish monkeys from apes.
  2. Monkeys have tails, apes don’t.
  3. The Old World monkeys live in Asia and Africa, and the New World monkeys live in South America.
  4. In the Chinese(Also read: Amazing facts about China) zodiac, monkey appears as the 9th animal. In 2016, monkey appears as the zodiac sign.
  5. The miniature spider monkey has incredible tail, its tail can hold the weight of the whole body. Don’t try to touch a monkey, they don’t like it and they are aggressive.
  6. Monkeys are intelligent animals.