Monkeys

Old World Monkeys


The Old World monkeys occupy a wide variety of environments in South and East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and even Gibraltar at the southern tip of Spain. Some species inhabit tropical forests, while others live on arid grasslands and even mountainous areas with heavy winter snows.
There are about 78 types of old world monkeys in two sub-families, the Cercopithecinae and the Colobinae.

New World Monkeys

New World monkeys are limited to tropical forest environments of southern Mexico, Central, and South America. They eat leaves, fruits, nuts, gums and sometimes insects. There are about 53 species spilt into two sub-families the Callithricidaes and the tamarins. The favourite food of the tamarins is carbohydrate rich tea sap, which they get by putting holes in trees.


Cheek pouches- Macaques and some other old world Monkeys have cheek pouches so they can stuff food into on the run so they can eat it later. New world Monkeys do not have cheek pouches