Monkeys

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Monkeys
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Scientific Classification

• Primate Order
• Marmosets
• Family Callitrichidae
• Capuchin
• Family Cebidae
• Old World Monkeys
• Family Cercopithecidae.

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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

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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

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Intelligence

• Great Intelligence
• Mental maps
• Calendars
• Communicate
• -Gestures, Postures
• and Vocalization
• Most social of
• all mammals
• Social Deception
• Math Concepts

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Behavior

• Varied Diets
• -mainly leaf-eaters
• Defensive Weaponry
• -alarm calls-outwit enemies
• Breed at any time
• 1 or 2 young
• Live long-50 years

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Endangered Monkeys

• Hunted for food
• Deforestation
• 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

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