Old world monkeys
The Old World monkey family is, as its name suggests, native to the Old World - Europe, Africa and Asia - although the only European ones are the Gibraltar Barbary macaques. Members of this family include the baboons, langurs and rhesus monkeys, amongst others.
Genus
Baboons (Papio)Baboons are large, old world monkeys containing five species native to Africa and south-west Arabia. Physically similar with long faces and dog-like muzzles, all baboons are intelligent, curious, adaptable and quite crafty.
Lutungs (Trachypithecus)Lutungs are a group of old-world monkeys that includes 17 species of lutungs, dusky langurs and leaf monkeys. These long-tailed monkeys live in groups in the tropical forests of south east Asia.
Macaca
Japanese macaque (species)Piliocolobus
Western red colobus (species)Rungwecebus
Kipunji (species)
Snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus)There are four species of snub-nosed monkey, all native to China or Vietnam..
Theropithecus
Gelada baboon (species)
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Grandmother monkeys care for baby
Grandmother macaques care for their abandoned grandchildren, behaviour not recorded before in non-human primates.
About
The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, scrubland, and mountainous terrain, and are also known from Europe in the fossil record. However, a (possibly introduced) free-roaming group of monkeys still survives in Gibraltar (Europe) to this day. Old World monkeys include many of the most familiar species of non-human primates such as baboons and macaques.
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Scientific Classification
Family: Old World monkey (Cercopithecidae)
Other Primates
- Atelidae (species: Common woolly monkey)
- Gibbons (Hylobatidae)
- Great apes and humans (Hominidae)
- Titis, sakis and uakaris (Cebidae)
- Woolly lemurs and allies (Indridae)
Elsewhere on the web
- Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu)
- Old World monkey (wikipedia.org)
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