What type of mammal is a monkey?

Answer 1

A monkey meets all the criteria for qualification as a mammal.

The female produces milk to feed its young.

The monkey has hair. All mammals have some hair at least at the beginning of their lives, even Wales and dolphins.

The main artery leaving the monkeys heart curves to the left becoming the aortic arch. Only mammals hearts have this.

The monkeys lower jaw is a single bone on either side. Only mammals have this.

The middle ear of a mammal, and only the mammal middle ear, contains 3 bones. The Stapes(Stirrup), Incus (Anvil) and the Malleus (Hammer).

No other animal has a diaphragm. A sheet of muscle and tendon that separates the body cavity into two sections.

Answer 2

The "definitive" characteristic is that mammalian mothers give milk to their offspring. Only mammals do that, as monkeys do it, that makes them mammals.

Another answer:

Monkeys are warm-blooded, they have hair, and they give birth to their young.

Answer 3

Yes, a monkey is a mammal. It shares all the traits of every other mammal, and is related to humans, apes, and every other example of this class of animal.

Answer 4

Monkeys are covered in hair, are warm blooded, bear their young alive and feed them on milk.

Answer 5

A monkey is both a mammal and an animal. mammals are animals

Answer 6

Yes, a monkey is a mammal

Answer 7

a monkey

Answer 8

It’s a mammal

Answer 9

Animal

Answer 10

Mammal