monkey: Quick Facts

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Old World and New World monkeys

common squirrel monkey

Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) sitting on a rock, showing its colorful face with bright blue and red markings and yellow beard.

Line drawings compare the head of a red-backed saki, a New World monkey with a rounded, bushy face and thick fur, to the head of a Japanese macaque, an Old World monkey with a longer, more angular face and less prominent facial hair.

cotton-top tamarin

Close-up of a moustached monkey, Cercopithecus cephus, showing its blue face, white mustache-like markings, and yellow cheek patches.

A common woolly monkey, Lagothrix lagotricha, sits upright on grass with its arms resting on its knees and its dense brown fur clearly visible.

Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana).

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