The Monkey
Beginning of Essay
In general, any member of the mammalian order Primates, with the exception
of the tree shrews, the lemurs and their allies, the gibbons and apes, and
humans.
Monkeys are arranged into two main groups: those of the Old World tropics,
the catarrhines, with two famil .... Middle of Essay .... drills). The
hands and feet are prehensile, with, typically, five digits on each, the
first (thumb and big toe) being divergent from the others. Commonly, the
digits have flattened nails, but those of the marmoset are an exception.
Except for the night-roaming durukuli of tropical America, monkeys are
active during the day, moving frequently in bands in search of vegetation,
birds' eggs, smaller animals, or insects to eat. Monkeys are highly social
animals and are often organized in clans headed by an old male; these clans
are rigidly defined in such species as howlers and baboons.
As in all primates the brain is comparatively large. This feature, ....
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