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Monkey. Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics ...
Capuchin monkey. Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) on a tree near a river bank in the jungles of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The capuchin monkeys (/ ˈkæpjʊ (t) ʃɪn /) are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae. They are readily identified as the " organ grinder " monkey, and have been used in many movies and television shows.
The marmosets (/ ˈmɑːrməˌzɛts, - ˌsɛts /), [3][4] also known as zaris or sagoin, are twenty-two New World monkey species of the genera Callithrix, Cebuella, Callibella, and Mico. All four genera are part of the biological family Callitrichidae. The term "marmoset" is also used in reference to Goeldi's marmoset, Callimico goeldii, which ...
The bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]
The vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. [ 3 ] The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries.
Tufted capuchin. The tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), also known as brown capuchin, black-capped capuchin, or pin monkey, is a New World primate from South America and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Margarita. As traditionally defined, it is one of the most widespread primates in the Neotropics, but it has recently been recommended ...
Macaque. The macaques (/ məˈkɑːk, - ˈkæk /) [2] constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and (in Gibraltar) Europe. Macaques are principally frugivorous (preferring fruit), although their diet also includes seeds ...
Galago. Galagos / ɡəˈleɪɡoʊz /, also known as bush babies or nagapies (meaning "night monkeys" in Afrikaans [2]), are small nocturnal [3] primates native to continental, sub-Sahara Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae). They are considered a sister group of the Lorisidae. [4][5]