Originally posted by: princess belle
Well seeing that , su has a facination for monkies I thought this would be of interest .............
Some monkey facts
Relative to its size, the spider monkey has a larger brain than other western hemisphere monkeys.
Spider monkeys pollinate certain plant species. When drinking a plant's nectar, they pick up pollen on their face and carry it to another plant, which is then fertilized.
The spider monkey will break off heavy branches and drop them from trees to scare off intruders .
The tail of the lion-tailed macaque can measure nearly two feet in length!
Monkeys have tails, apes don't.
The chimpanzee According to scientists, is humankind's closest living relative.
A group of monkeys is called a troop of monkeys.
Monkeys pay each other for work performed in obtaining food.
Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans all catch colds, but curiously monkeys do not.
Chimpanzees live for approximately 50 years.
Did you know that the orang-utan is the largest fruit-eating animal in the world and that it rarely comes out of the trees?
When monkeys yawn its not just because there tired its also because there mad.
All monkeys like to be clean so they have a barber monkey clean out their fur, the barber monkeys reward is the bugs in his customer's hair.
Monkeys peal there bananas they don't eat the skin.
very nice
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