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The Monkey
In general, any member of the mammalian order Primates, with the exception
of the tree shrews, the lemurs and their allies, the gibbons and apes, and
Monkeys are arranged into two main groups: those of the Old World tropics,
the catarrhines, with two families, Cercopithecidae (monkeys with cheek
pouches) and Colobidae ....
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.... species as howlers and baboons.
As in all primates the brain is comparatively large. This feature, combined
with the freeing of the hands and a well-developed vision, allows monkeys a
great latitude of activity. Among the smaller New World forms that have
endeared themselves to humans because of their ingratiating antics and
their tameability are the alert marmosets, often plumed and colourfully
arrayed; the inquisitive squirrel and woolly monkeys; and the capuchins, or
organ grinder's monkeys--all of which exhibit in marked degree the
curiosity and cleverness ascribed to monkeys genera ....
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