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Monkey
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Colchester Zoo
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Pig-Tailed Macaque, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
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Pig-Tailed Macaque, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
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Pig-Tailed Macaque, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
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Pig-Tailed Macaque, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
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Pig-Tailed Macaques playing, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
Monkeys travel a lot for their daily diet.
Monkeys eat eggs, nuts, seeds, and fruits.
Tibetan Macaques can tip the scales at 66 pounds!
Nepal grey langurs can grow to 58 pounds
Though not all old world monkeys sweat, many do, including macaques and baboons.
Being nocturnal allows the night monkey to feed at night when bigger and more dominant monkeys are asleep.
A troop works together to take care of the group's young monkeys, playing, cuddling, and protecting. The troop's leader is the strongest and largest of the male monkeys.
The pygmy marmoset is the smallest marmoset, but its eyes certainly aren't small!
The pygmy marmoset is the smallest marmoset, but its eyes certainly aren't small!
Meet Capuchin monkeys and other furry, feathered, and scaly friends at South Carolina's Top Five Zoos for animal encounters.
Graells's Black-mantle Tamarin is a shy tiny primate with a white face from Andean slopes of South America, Wild Sumaco, Ecuador.
Smallest Monkeys
An Azara's night monkey (Aotus azarae), also known as an owl monkey, feeding on bananas in a tourist lodge garden, Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
A Dusky Titi Monkey in the trees near the Tambopata Research Center. Dusky titi monkeys are a monogamous primate species, and mating pairs will remain together for life.
Talapoins are the smallest old World monkeys. They can live in groups of up to one hundred individuals.
The Pygmy marmoset has fingernails that are like claws to help them climb up and down trees.
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