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Baby Monkey Just Wake Up In Mother Hand , A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates, the New World monkeys and the Old World monkeys. The New World monkeys are found in Mexico, Central America, and South America, and the Old World monkeys are located in Africa, central to southern Asia, Japan, and India. There are more than 250 extant species between the two groups.Show more

The biological order primates is divided informally into three main groupings: prosimians, monkeys of the New World, and monkeys and apes of the Old World. Together, the New World monkeys and the Old World monkeys and apes are considered to be "higher primates," or simians (infraorder Similformes), while the prosimians (such as lemurs) are considered to be the "lower primates." The term monkey thus refers to any simian that is not an ape.

The term may also be defined as any primate that is not an ape (including humans) or a prosimian. In reality, monkeys are not a single coherent group and therefore do not have any particular traits that they all share.

Humans and monkeys are so similar that researchers even study behaviors of monkeys, such as a sense of "fairness," to try and better understand the origin of human behaviors (see below). However, despite the genetic and anatomical similarities, humans remain radically unique from other primates in many aspects, including having complex technologies, complex spoken and written languages, highly developed cultural institutions, unique moral and religious beliefs, and so forth.

Apes, such as chimpanzees and gibbons, are sometimes incorrectly called monkeys because of their similarity to monkeys. Also, a few monkey species have the word ape in their common name, but are not true apes.