Monkey Facts - Your Online Source for Information on Monkeys

• Monkey facts can be about Old World Monkeys or 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.

• Monkey facts show that the Howler Monkey howls at the beginning and end of every day, and that its howl can be heard for three miles.

• 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 a domesticated animal.

• 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 be only ten inches long. 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 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.