MONKEYS IN THE WORLD

Monkeys....

Binatang yg slalu kita dengar...

Sekarang, Beberapa monyet telah dimanfaatkan manusia sebagai haiwan peliharaan atau haiwan untuk membantu perkerjaan harian. Monyet ekor panjang (Macaca fascicularis) adalah haiwan yang paling biasa berinteraksi dengan manusia dan sering dipelihara sebagai hewan belaan, haiwan serkus, atau percubaan laboratorium. Ia juga primata pertama yang pernah ke angkasa luar. Beruk di beberapa tempat di Sumatera dan Malaya dipelihara untuk dilatih sebagai pemetik kelapa dan sebagainya...

White-headed Capuchin (Cebus capucinus)

Otak Monyet dimakan sebagai lazat di Asia Selatan, China, dan Afrika.

Dalam undang-undang makanan tradisional Islam, makan monyet dilarang...

Namun,kadang-kadang monyet dimakan di beberapa bahagian Afrika, di mana mereka boleh

dijual sebagai "bushmeat"

A night monkey in Panama

• ORDER PRIMATES
  • Suborder Strepsirrhini: non-tarsier prosimians
  • Suborder Haplorrhini: tarsiers, monkeys and apes
    • Infraorder Tarsiiformes
      • Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers
    • Infraorder Simiiformes: simians
      • Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys
        • Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)
        • Family Aotidae: night monkeys (8 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") (13 species)
          • Family Hominidae: great apes including humans (7 species)

Note that the smallest grouping that contains them all is the Simiiformes, the simians, which also contains the apes. Calling apes "monkeys" is considered scientifically incorrect as apes are distinctly defined as different from monkeys

A young male White-fronted Capuchin

White-faced Saki (Pithecia pithecia)

HISTORY OF MONKEYS

Several million years ago the chimpanzee and gorilla lines had already separated from one another, and the orangutan line even earlier than that. Throughout the eighteenth century there remained a considerable amount of confusion in distinguishing between orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The orangutan was the first to be recognized as a distinct genus -- only because of its remote habitat in Asia. It was not until 1847, on the basis of a single skull from Gabon, that the gorilla was confirmed as a separate genus from the chimpanzee." (Fossey, 1983) Subspecies of Gorillas

Black-headed Spider Monkey