Monkey Facts

Monkey Facts

Monkey Facts
  • The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange Monkeyd!
  • Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
  • A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
  • Squirrel Monkeys are the most common monkey in South-America.
  • Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.
  • Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.
  • Colobus monkey’s bushy tails, which often exceeds the length of their bodies.
  • Colobus monkeys have a long, black fur coat with a white stripe running down the sides of their backs to their tails.
  • Zanzibar is the only place where you will find the Kirk's Red Colobus monkey.
  • The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.
  • The Spider Monkey offspring are dependent on their mothers for the first 2 to 3 years, with the females giving birth every 3 to 4 years.
  • Spider Monkeys will use all five appendages; arms, legs and tail, to scramble through trees.
  • Spider Monkeys have hook-like fingers, but no thumb, and the tip of their tail can support the weight of their entire body.
  • Spider Monkeys are very good climbers and are usually found in groups of around 30, often broken up into smaller sub-groups of around 3 or 4.
  • Groups of Snow Monkeys are primarily formed by adult females, there are roughly three time the number of adult females than there are adult males and young.
  • Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
  • Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
  • Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.
  • Gorilla's have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.
  • Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10ºC.
  • The Old World monkeys include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World monkeys are exclusively arboreal. Some New World monkeys have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.
  • Monkeys are divided into two geographically separate groups - the New World monkeys of South America and the Old World monkeys, found in Africa and Asia.
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