Hey guys in the last post we met Penguins today we will meet our Ancestors, No; I'm not talking about your grand parents am talking about the one that irritates you the most the one that's very close to us the Monkeys.
Classification:
Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Mammalia
Infra class-Primates
Order-Haplorrhini
Family-Simiiformes
Species:
-Monkeys Are Sub-divided into New world and old world monkeys.
-There are 264 known species of monkeys.
-The old world monkeys are more closely related to the apes then they are to the New World Monkeys.
Features:
-Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Marmoset, at 140 to160 millimeters to the male mandrill, almost 1 meter long.
Features:
-Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Marmoset, at 140 to160 millimeters to the male mandrill, almost 1 meter long.
-Their weight range from 120 to140 gms to 35 kilograms respectively.
Monkeys are nonhuman primate mammal, except for Lemurs and tarsiers.
Monkeys are nonhuman primate mammal, except for Lemurs and tarsiers.
Due to its size the Mandrill is often thought to be an ape but its actually an Old World Monkey. Also, Few monkeys have the word "ape" in their common name.
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