Well, lets see if this helps.
COMMON NAME: Monkey
SCIENTIFIC WORD: Catrol Vancliechin
LATIN: Simianus
ALBANIAN: Majmun
BELARUSIAN: Малпа
BULGARIAN: Маймуна
CATALAN: Mono
FRENCH: Singe
GERMAN: Affe
RUSSIAN: Обезьяна
...Guess we'll never know. :(
The word 'Monkey' is very interesting etymologically, although unusually there is no definite answer.
Some sources state "of unknown origin," but the majority consider monkey to be a Middle Low German loanword.
OED Online says this:
The immediate etymon of monkey perhaps or presumably is MLG * moneke. The unrecorded appellative can be inferred from the name of a character in the MLG version of Reynard the Fox called Moneke whose name denotes 'monkey' because his father was Martin the Ape.
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century spellings such as
The word "monkey" probably comes from an old fable called "Reynard the Fox," which was published in 1580. In the fable, the son of a character named Martin the Ape is Moneke.
Well, what are human babies called? Infants, since monkeys and apes are our "cousins" they share some of the same names that we do, for example, their young are called infants.
A group of monkeys is called a troop of monkeys. Another collective noun is a barrel of monkeys.
The collective noun for monkeys is a troop of monkeys.
A group of monkeys is called a troop of monkeys. Another collective noun is a barrel of monkeys.
A group of any kind of monkeys is called a 'troop.'
Baby spider monkeys are called infants or just baby spider monkeys.
Animal artic mokeys are called artic monkeys.
Troop or Tribe
Well, if this answers your question, Big 'Monkeys' such as Gorillas and Chimpanzees don't have tails, but they are actually called Apes. Most 'monkeys' who have a tail are called monkeys.
they are called extinct monkeys they are going extinct because of people cutting down the rain forest [ruining monkeys homes]so monkeys have nowere to live
No, they are not called either a herd or a pack. A group of monkeys is called a troop.
Nope. Its a troop of monkeys.
Old World monkeys live in Africa and Asia. When the Americas were discovered, people called the western hemisphere the New World. Europe and the rest of the known lands were called the Old World. That is why monkeys of the Americas are called New World monkeys and those from Africa and Asia are called Old World monkeys.