Monkey
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 Crab-eating Macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
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Monkeys are a kind of primate. There are many different kinds of monkeys. Monkeys mostly live in trees. They usually eat bananas, fruits, and leaves. They can be kept as pets. Monkeys can live in forests, and are commonly found in all the rainforests of the world.
A group of monkeys is called a "mission" of monkeys or a "tribe" of monkeys.
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[change] Appearance
Some monkeys are very small, about 10 cm long and 120 g in weight, while other monkeys can be very big, about 1 meter long and 35 kg in weight. There are two types of monkeys, New World monkeys and Old World monkeys. New World Monkeys live in America and Old World monkeys live in Africa and Asia.
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The smallest known monkey is the Pygmy Monkey Dog. It is about 14-16cm in size (without the tail). It weighs about 120 grams. It lives in the treetops of rainforests in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. The largest known monkey is the Mandrill. It can grow to about 1 m in size. Adults weigh up to 35 kg.
[change] Ape
There is another group of primate, which almost looks like monkeys. This group is called the Apes. They do not have tails and are bigger.
[change] Origin
The name monkey may have come from a German story called Reynard the Fox which was written around 1580. In this story, a character named "Moneke" is the son of "Martin the Ape". The word Moneke may be from the Italian monna, which means "a female ape."
