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  2. Monkey - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Indian monkeys known as bandar from the illuminated manuscript Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur) Sun Wukong (the "Monkey King"), a character who figures prominently in Chinese mythology, is the protagonist in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Monkeys are prevalent in numerous books, television programs, and movies.

  3. Old World monkey - Wikipedia

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    Several Old World monkeys have anatomical oddities. For example, the colobus monkeys have stubs for thumbs to assist with their arboreal movement, the proboscis monkey has an extraordinary nose, while the snub-nosed monkeys have almost no nose at all. The penis of the male mandrill is crimson and the scrotum is lilac; the face is also brightly ...

  4. Primate - Wikipedia

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    Monkeys comprise two monophyletic groups, New World monkeys and Old World monkeys, but is paraphyletic because it excludes hominoids, superfamily Hominoidea, also descendants of the common ancestor Simiiformes. Apes as a whole, and the great apes, are paraphyletic if the terms are used such that they exclude humans.

  5. 25 monkeys caught but more still missing after escape from ...

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    Of the 43 monkeys that broke loose from Alpha Genesis, officials managed to recover 25 of them between Saturday and Sunday, leaving 18 of the animals still at large in Yemassee, a small town about ...

  6. What we know after 43 monkeys escaped a South Carolina ...

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    More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina earlier this month, prompting warnings for nearby residents to secure their doors and windows. Thirty-nine of the fugitive ...

  7. List of individual monkeys - Wikipedia

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    Able (rhesus macaque) and Miss Baker (Peruvian squirrel monkey), both female – the first monkeys sent into space who survived the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA 's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown .

  8. New World monkey - Wikipedia

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    New World monkeys are the only monkeys with prehensile tails—in comparison with the shorter, non-grasping tails of the anthropoids of the Old World. Prehensility has evolved at least two distinct times in platyrrhines, in the Atelidae family (spider monkeys, woolly spider monkeys, howler monkeys, and woolly monkeys), and in capuchin monkeys ...

  9. List of cercopithecoids - Wikipedia

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    Dusky leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus). Cercopithecoidea is a superfamily of primates.Members of this family are called cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, and include baboons, colobuses, guenons, lutungs, macaques, and other types of monkeys.

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