How is a monkey different from other animals ?
Well, monkeys are considered to be intelligent animals
When did they come into the knowledge of humans as intelligent animals?
Well about 25 million years ago, Hominoidea emerged along side Old World monkeys
very interesting, did evolution affect monkeys as well?
A group of monkeys may be commonly referred to as a tribe or a troop.
Two separate groups of primates are referred to as "monkeys": New World monkeys (platyrrhines) from South and Central America and Old World monkeys (catarrhines in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea) from Africa and Asia. Apes (hominoids)—consisting of gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans—are also catarrhines but were classically distinguished from monkeys. (Tailless monkeys may be called "apes", incorrectly according to modern usage; thus
"lesser apes") (17 species)
- Family Hominidae: great apes (including humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) (7 species)
Classification Cladogram with extinct families.
Below is a cladogram with some extinct monkey families. Generally, extinct non-hominoid simians, including early Catarrhines are discussed as monkeys as well as simians or anthropoids, which cladistically means that Hominoidea are monkeys as well, restoring monkeys as a single grouping. It is indicated approximately how many million years ago (Mya) the