Monkey
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Habitat
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Monkey
("monkey." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug. 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 11 May 2016.)
Monkey
("monkey." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug. 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 11 May 2016.)
Monkey Trouble
Movement
Body Covering
Diet
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Reproduction
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Adaptations
Other Information
The New World, or neotropical, monkeys belong to the infraorder Platyrrhini. They are distinguished from the Old World primates primarily by their noses, which are broad and have widely spaced, outwardly directed nostrils. (“Platy” means “flat,” and “rhin” means “nose.”) Most New World monkeys are fairly small, with tails that are usually long and sometimes prehensile. This adaptive trait enables these arboreal monkeys to hang by their tails from tree branches while feeding. Unlike their Old World cousins, the New World monkeys lack ischial callosities. With the exception of the owl monkey, the New World monkeys are diurnal. They are found only in tropical regions of Central and South America.
The classification of New World monkeys at the family level has been a source of continuing debate among researchers. The most commonly accepted scheme classifies these primates in two families: the Callitrichidae, which includes the marmosets and tamarins, and the Cebidae, which includes the other genera.
("monkey." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug. 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 11 May 2016.)
Works Cited
Discoverer. Web. 12 May 2016. <http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/
discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000354978>.
Created: 05/12/16 09:29 AM