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What does that mean or signify if apes and monkeys are primates?
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A primate is a member of the most developed and intelligent group of mammals, including humans, monkeys and apes. The second interpretation of primate is religious. A Priest with the highest position in his country
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∙ 7y agoA primate is a mammal of the order Primates.
The primates basically consist of apes (including humans, who are technically considered apes), monkeys, and "prosimians" (tarsiers, lemurs, and lorises).
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Mammal group that includes apes and humans?
The family Hominidae includes humans and the great apes. The great apes are the gorillas, chimpanzee, bonobo, and orangutan. A number of extinct species also belong to Hominidae.
Are primates common all over?
Yes. Humans are primates and humans are found to live on every continent but Antarctica. But I'm assuming you mean like monkeys and non-human apes? These creatures are also quite common. You can find monkeys and apes in such places as Africa, South America, Asia etc...
What does a primate mean?
Primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including humans.
What does pomfretphobia mean?
Fear of primates (MONKEYS)
What does it mean when primates groom?
Nothing really. Primates groom as a social activity most times. Grooming to them is like humans going and hanging out with friends somewhere. Obviously they use it to get clean and look for things in their fur (monkeys) or hair (apes).
What does primate mean?
Primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including humans.
Are apes monkeys?
No. Monkeys are not apes.Monkeys differ from apes as they have atail (usually),smaller brain,quadrupedal pronograde posture,and a usually longer face.Most monkeys cannot swing arm-over-arm (the spider monkey is an exception) but move about in trees by running along the branches on all fours.A few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name.While all monkeys are not apes, apes, however, can be classed as monkeys. Animals typically called as "monkeys" by the public are actually two very distinct sets of animals: what are actually "Old World monkeys" and "New World monkeys". Old World monkeys are demonstrably more closely related to apes (a class that includes humans) than they are to New World monkeys: Old World monkeys and apes (and us humans) belong to the parvorder Catarrhini, while New World monkeys do not. They belong to their own parvorder, Platyrrhini.To say that Old World monkeys and New World monkeys are related to each other but not to to apes would be the same as saying your sister and your cousin are more closely related than you and your sister are; or that a Chevy Silverado and a Ford F-150 are more closely "related" because they bear a superficial resemblance, than a Chevy Silverado and a Chevy Impala -- both of which are obvious nonsense. Thus, if the term "monkey" is going to mean anything, it must be grouping for all the members of Catarrhini and Platyrrhini together, and that would include apes, and that would include us (as members of Catarrhini). Effectively, any primate that is not a prosimian or a tarsier (in other words, infraorder Simiiformes) is a variety of monkey. Some primates are monkeys, some monkeys are apes, and some apes are humans.
Did you evolve from chimpanzees?
Considering humans and apes share 98% of their DNA, it is highly probable that we evolved from apes. Althoug humans may have evolved from apes, it is more likelt that we are both descended from a common ancestor.
What Class do the monkey belongs to?
If by that you mean order than primates. Suborder of haplorrhini (anthropoids). Infraorder of platyrrhines (New world monkeys) and catarrhines (Old world monkeys and apes). And for the catarrhines the superfamily of cercopithecoidea (old world monkeys). (P.S. this is the short version.)
Are humans part monkey?
No, but we are related distantly. We are related more closely to Great Apes (such as gorillas) than to monkeys.
I have a 2 dollar monkey how much many. Monkeys will I have if I paid 200000000?
35 million years ago. Old World monkeys and Hominoidea emerged within the catarrhine monkeys some 25 million years ago. Extinct basal simians such as Aegyptopithecus or Parapithecus [35-32 million years ago], eosimiidea and sometimes even the Catarrhini group are also considered monkeys by primatologists.Lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys; instead they are strepsirrhine primates. Like monkeys, tarsiers are haplorhine primates; however, they are also not monkeys. Apes emerged within "monkeys" as sister of the Cercopithecidae in the Catarrhini, so cladistically they are monkeys as well. There has been resistance to directly designate apes (and thus humans) as monkeys, so "Old World monkey" may be taken to mean the Cercopithecoidea or the Catarrhini. That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century.Monkeys, including apes, can be distinguished from other primates by having only two pectoral nipples, a pendulous penis, and a lack of sensory whiskers. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word "monkey" may originate in a German version of the Reynard the Fox fable, published circa 1580. In this version of the fable, a character named Moneke is the son of Martin the Ape. In English, no very clear distinction was originally made between "ape" and "monkey"; thus the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry for "ape" notes that it is either a synonym for "monkey" or is used to mean a tailless humanlike primate. Colloquially, the terms "monkey" and "ape" are widely used interchangeably. Also, a few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name, such as the Barbary ape. Later in the first half of the 20th century, the idea developed that there were trends in primate evolution and that the living members of the order could be arranged in a series, leading through "monkeys" and "apes" to humans. Monkeys thus constituted a "grade" on the path to humans and were distinguished from "apes". Scientific classifications are now more often based on monophyletic groups, that is groups consisting of all the descendants of a common ancestor. The New World monkeys and the Old World monkeys are each monophyletic groups, but their combination was not, since it excluded hominoids (apes and humans). Thus the term "monkey" no longer referred to a recognized scientific taxon. The smallest accepted taxon which contains all the monkeys is the infraorder Simiiformes, or simians. However this also contains the hominoids, so that monkeys are, in terms of currently recognized taxa, non-hominoid simians. Colloquially and pop-culturally, the term is ambiguous and sometimes monkey includes non-human hominoids. In addition, frequent arguments are made for a monophyletic usage of the word "monkey" from the perspective that usage should reflect cladistics.A group of monkeys may be commonly referred to as a tribe or a troop.Two separate groups of primates are referred to as "monkeys": New World monkeys (platyrrhines) from South and Central America and Old World monkeys (catarrhines in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea) from Africa and Asia. Apes (hominoids)—consisting of gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans—are also catarrhines but were classically distinguished from monkeys. (Tailless monkeys may be called "apes", incorrectly according to modern usage; thus the tailless Barbary macaque is sometimes called the "Barbary ape".) As apes have emerged in the monkey group as sister of the old world monkeys, characteristics that describe monkeys are generally shared by apes as well. Williams et al outlined evolutionary features, including in stem groupings, contrasted against the other primates such as the tarsiers and the lemuriformes.Monkeys range in size from the pygmy marmoset, which can be as small as 117 millimetres (4.6 in) with a 172-millimetre (6.8 in) tail and just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) in weight, to the male mandrill, almost 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and weighing up to 36 kilograms (79 lb). Some are arboreal (living in trees) while others live on the savanna; diets differ among the various species but may contain any of the following: fruit, leaves, seeds, nuts, flowers, eggs and small animals (including insects and spiders).Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have prehensile tails while Old World monkeys have non-prehensile tails or no visible tail at all. Old World monkeys have trichromatic color vision like that of humans, while New World monkeys may be trichromatic, dichromatic, or—as in the owl monkeys and greater galagos—monochromatic. Although both the New and Old World monkeys, like the apes, have forward-facing eyes, the faces of Old World and New World monkeys look very different, though again, each group shares some features such as the types of noses, cheeks and rumps. The following list shows where the various monkey families (bolded) are placed in the classification of living (extant) primates. ORDER PRIMATES Suborder Strepsirrhini: lemurs, lorises, and galagos Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers, monkeys, and apes Infraorder Tarsiiformes Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers Infraorder Simiiformes: simians Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys Family Callitrichidae: marmosets and tamarins (42 species) Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys (14 species) Family Aotidae: night monkeys (11 species) Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis, and uakaris (41 species) Family Atelidae: howler, spider, and woolly monkeys (24 species) Parvorder Catarrhini Superfamily Cercopithecoidea Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species) Superfamily Hominoidea: apes Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (17 species) Family Hominidae: great apes (including humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) (8 species) Below is a cladogram with some extinct monkey families. Generally, extinct non-hominoid simians, including early Catarrhines are discussed as monkeys as well as simians or anthropoids, which cladistically means that Hominoidea are monkeys as well, restoring monkeys as a single grouping. It is indicated approximately how many million years ago
Is a baboon ape or monkey?
A baboon is in the monkey family, but in different primates. They are old world monkeys which mean they are in Africa or Asia. I guess they're in the same group, but a baboon is neither. It's just called in the "monkey" family!
