What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

Proboscis monkeys are endemic to the jungles of Borneo, never straying far from the island’s rivers, coastal mangroves, and swamps. They are a highly arboreal species and will venture onto land ...

Monkeys are highly social animals, and many species live in familiar ... Monkeys are typically smaller than apes, have a tail ...

The tail of this Old World monkey isn’t prehensile but instead ... Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Still, the arboreal animals also sometimes forage for frogs, small reptiles and insects, even ...

As one might expect, the muscles of the quadriceps are huge in these animals to produce ... of forelimb use during arboreal and terrestrial quadrupedalism in Old World monkeys.

These two monkeys were the youngest of the group but not the smallest. " If primates are to be kept in laboratories, they present unique problems. They are highly active, arboreal animals and because ...