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Beautiful pictures of fifteen different species of monkeys and apes from around the world including Baboons, Chimpanzees, Gibbons, Gorillas, Lemurs, Marmosets, Macaques, and Orangutans. Many people call all primates monkeys. However, apes and monkeys are two different animals.

Here are some of the characteristics of apes:

Apes don't have tails
Apes only live in Africa and Asia
Apes are most often bigger than monkeys.
Apes have a more upright body posture
Apes rely on sightmore than smell
Apes have a large brain to body ratio

Among types of apes are gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, humans, and a group of lesser apes called gibbons.

Monkeys are divides into two categories: Old world monkeys and new world monkeys. Old world monkeys live in Africa, Asia, India, and Japan. New world monkeys live in Mexico, Central and South America.

Old world monkeys:

are larger than new world monkeys
have flattened finger nails
have a bigger, padded, buttocks to sit on
have narrow, downward pointing nostrils

Some examples of old world monkeys are the macaque, baboon, snow monkeys, and the colobus.

New world Monkeys:

Have long tails that are sometimes prehensile (grab and hold things like branches)
Circular nostrils
No buttocks padding
No cheek pouches

Examples of new world monkeys are the callimicos, marmosets, tamarins, lemurs, and capuchins.

Baboons
Baboon (old world monkeys) pictures and information.

Callimicos
Callimicos a.k.a Goeldi's Monkey (*debatable* New World Monkey)

Chimpanzees
Pictures, facts, and trivia about chimpanzees (Ape).

Colobus Monkey
Pictures of Black and White Colobus monkeys (Old World monkey).

Debrazzas Monkeys
Pictures of DeBrazza's monkeys (Old World monkey)

Dusky Titi Monkeys
Pictures of Dusky Titi monkeys.

Gibbon
Pictures of Gibbons (Ape)

Gorillas
Pictures of Gorillas (Ape)

Japanese Macaque
Pictures of Japanese Macaques aka Snow monkeys (Old World monkey).

Lemurs
More than twenty pictures of Lemurs, including pictures of a baby lemur that could walk in and out of the cage because he was small enough to fit through the bars at the Southwick Zoo in Massachusetts.

Macaques
Pictures of Barbary Macaque monkeys (Old World monkey).

Marmosets
Pictures of Silvery Marmosets (New World monkey)

Orangutans
Pictures of Orangutans (Great Ape).

Red-tailed Guenon
Pictures of red-tailed guenons, an African species that lives in lowland rain forests, mountain forests, swamps, and acacia woodlands. They mostly eat fruit, but they'll also eat leaves and small animals. Currently, this species is considered threatened, which is better than endangered.

Siamangs
Pictures of siamangs (Hylobates syndactylus), native to mainland Malaysia and Sumatra. They live in evergreen tropical rainforests and mountain regions and spend most of their time in trees about 30 feet up.

Tamarins
Pictures of Tamarins (New World monkey)

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carefull some of these chimpanzes and gorrillas will bite your fingers off they can be dagerous by: gorilla girl (9/20/2009, 1:55 AM)

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