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This website is about monkeys and what they do in there lives. It has some funny animal picturs in it but also contains many facts wich an avarage person wouldn't know.It sais about New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys and how they are different in many ways.

 

A monkey is a primate , either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey, but excluding apes and humans. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons.    Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys usually have tails. Tailless monkeys may be called "apes", incorrectly according to modern usage.

 

The New World monkeys  are classified   within the parvorder of Platyrrhini, whereas the Old World monkeys form part of the       parvorder. Catarrhini, which also includes the hominoids apes,        including humans. Thus, as Old World monkeys are more closely   related to hominoids than they are to New World monkeys, the   monkeys are not a unitary group.

Monkeys can be very clever animals ,  but most of the time they are just silly and funn.

Monkeys are very good at climbing trees , they use this talent to get away from predators.

 

BY EDWARD FOSTER