Monkeys
Scientific Classification
• Primate Order
• Marmosets
Family Callitrichidae
• Capuchin
Family Cebidae
• Old World Monkeys
Family Cercopithecidae.
Habitat
• South America, Central America, Africa,
Southern Parts of Asia
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information about rainforests)
• Forests of sub tropics and tropics-warm
temperatures
Physical Characteristics
• Forward Facing Eyes-allows monkeys to gauge
distances as they move along the ground
• Hands and feet adapted for climbing
-Fingers and toes are flexible
- Palms and Soles covered with hairless non-
slip skin
-Flat nails
-Opposable thumbs and opposable big toes-
allows monkeys to create a tight grip
• Sexes differ in shape and size and sometimes
in coloration
Intelligence
• Great Intelligence
• Mental maps
• Calendars
• Communicate
-Gestures, Postures
and Vocalization
• Most social of
all mammals
• Social Deception
• Math Concepts
Behavior
• Varied Diets
-mainly leaf-eaters
• Defensive Weaponry
-alarm calls
-outwit enemies
• Breed at any time
• 1 or 2 young
• Live long-50 years
Endangered Monkeys
• Hunted for food
• Deforestation Click me for more
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has caused many
monkeys to lose
their homes
• South American
marmosets-captured
and sold as pets
• African monkeys
-hunted for
colorful pelts
• Asian macaques and languor