Monkey Facts - Your Online Source for Information on Monkeys
Monkeys can be grouped into 2 categories: Old World Monkeys and New World Monkeys.
Old World Monkeys are from Africa, Asia, and Europe and New World monkeys are from the Americas.
Depending on breed, a monkey can be anywhere from six inches tall to almost three feet tall.
Monkey facts show that the Howler Monkey howls at the beginning and end of every day, and that its howl can be heard from as far as three miles away.
The Howler Monkey is the loudest animal in the world.
A troop is a group of monkeys.
In the wild, monkeys spend most of their time in trees.
Monkeys can live to be over forty years old in captivity.
There are over 200 different species of monkeys.
An ape is not a monkey.
A monkey can weigh anywhere from four ounces to one hundred pounds.
Most monkeys, like humans, give birth to one baby.
Monkeys peel their bananas and do not eat the skins.
A money can use his tail in the same way as his hands and feet.
An ape does not have a tail but a monkey does.
There are laws against importing monkeys or apes into the United States or Canada.
Most humans cannot provide for the needs of a monkey.
Monkeys harvested for the pet trade are stolen from their mothers sometimes just hours after being born.
Monkeys are not domesticated animals.
It is common for monkeys to carry tuberculosis, hepatitis, and simian herpes B.
A monkey separated from his mother at birth will become aggressive in adolescent years.
There are national laws and many state laws that make the keeping of a monkey illegal.
Monkeys are omnivorous, meaning they eat animals and plants.
Squirrel monkeys can only grow up to ten inches tall. They live in South America.
The baboon is the largest monkey.
Baboons walk on all four legs.
The only nocturnal monkey is the owl monkey.
When a monkey swings from tree to tree, it is called brachiating.
Orangutans do not like sun or rain.
The gestation period for many monkeys is as long as in humans.
The wooly monkey lives in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Columbia, Brazil and Peru.
The common marmoset monkey lives in Brazil and is just over seven inches tall.
Monkeys can grasp with both their fingers and their toes.
Monkeys are highly intelligent.
Some monkeys are trained to aid paraplegics in day-to-day living.
Monkeys reach maturity at around four years old.
There are eight national primate research centers in the United States.
Monkey facts reveal that some monkey troops have over seven hundred monkeys in them.
The word monkey refers to every primate that is not a human, prosimian, or ape.
Monkeys sit in an erect posture.
Apes and spider monkeys swing arm-to-arm in trees, but most monkeys don’t.
Many monkeys are currently on the endangered species list.