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Essay Galaxy - The Monkey
The Monkey
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
Monkeys are arranged into two main groups: those of the Old World tropics,
the catarrhines, with two families, Cercopithecidae (monkeys with cheek
pouches) and Colobidae (leaf monkeys); and those of the New World tropics,
the platyrrhines, also with two families, Callitrichidae (marmoset) and
Cebidae.
Monkeys live in tropical forests, where they move about by using all four
limbs. Except for the largest, such as the baboon and drills, monkeys are
predominantly arboreal, leaping from limb to limb in their travels among
the trees. On the ground they walk in plantigrade fashion (the entire sole
of the foot touching the ground); but they are capable ....
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