Monkeys are intelligent, social animals. They are known for running and jumping from trees with ease.
Monkeys look like apes like chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas. But monkeys differ from apes in many ways. For example, each monkey has a tail, even if it is just a tiny numbs. apes have no tails. Monkeys also usually have a smaller chest than apes.
Monkeys are intelligent creatures who can solve problems. Almost all species live together in groups. A group of monkeys usually includes a few related females, their young, and one or more males.
Words to Describe Monkey
Following are common adjective words used for describing monkey:
| Adult | Evil |
| African | Executive |
| Aged | Eyed |
| Aged | Faced |
| Alert | Favorite |
| Ancestral | Female |
| Angry | Fetal |
| Animated | Frightful |
| Animatronic | Funny |
| Audacious | Golden |
| Awake | Gray |
| Bedizened | Green |
| Big | Grey |
| Black | Haired |
| Blind | Headed |
| Bloody | Healthy |
| Blue | Holy |
| Brain | Hostile |
| Brown | Howler |
| Caged | Huge |
| Cebus | Human |
| Cheeky | Hungry |
| Clever | Inconsiderate |
| Charactereven | Indian |
| Chief | Indignant |
| Clean | Individual |
| Contemptible | Infant |
| Colobus | Infected |
| Complete | Innumerable |
| Conscious | Instant |
| Cynomolgus | Intelligent |
| Dead | Japanese |
| Dominant | Lifeless |
| Drunken | Live |
| Eating | Lively |
| Leaping | Yellow |
| Lovely | Roasted |
| Macaque | Runaway |
| Male | Sacred |
| Mature | Sick |
| Mischievous | Silken |
| Miserable | Single |
| Mortal | Small |
| Mouthed | South |
| Muscular | Strange |
| Nationalist | Stuffed |
| Neonatal | Stunned |
| Newborn | Sub |
| Nimble | Subtle |
| Normal | Sweet |
| Nosed | Tailed |
| Numerous | Tailless |
| Old | Tame |
| Omnivorous | Tender |
| Ordinary | Terrible |
| Outraged | Tertiary |
| Ovariectomized | Tiny |
| Owl | Trained |
| Pet | Ugly |
| Pious | Unanesthetized |
| Poor | Unfortunate |
| Preacher | Upstart |
| Pregnant | Vaccinated |
| Proverbal | Vain |
| Punky | White |
| Queasy | Wild |
| Rare | Willing |
| Real | Wise |
| Red | Woolly |
| Ressive | Woolly |
| Rhesus | Wounded |
| Young | Wrong |
There are about 200 species of monkeys. Scientists have divided them into two groups, the Old-World monkeys and the New World monkeys.
Old World monkeys include baboons, drills, mandrills, macaques, guenons, langurs, and colobus monkeys. Among the New World monkeys are marmoset, tamarin, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, squirrels, furry monkeys, and capuchins.
Old World monkeys are found in Africa and parts of Asia. New World monkeys are found in the tropics of Central and South America. Many monkeys live in trees in the rain forest. Chimpanzees and other species thrive on grassy or rocky terrain.
Many species of monkeys are endangered, or even threatened with death. People cut down trees in large areas of forest where monkeys live. People also hunt monkeys for their meat and fur. In addition, some monkeys are caught and sold as pets.
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