APES AND MONKEYS
Mammal     -      Vertebrate      -   Omnivore 
APES ...
MONKEYS ...
         Orangutan - Gorilla - Chimpanzee  Bonobo

  • Apes have a large brain
  • Apes do not have tails
  • Some apes have four feet, others have two
  • Apes can hang from their arms
  • Apes rely on vision rather than smell and have shorter noses than monkeys
  • Apes eat fruit, grass and small invertebrate animals
  • Apes can make and use tools for hunting
  • Apes can live for about 60 years
  • Apes can be found in Asia and Africa
  • 50% of Orangutans have broken bones from falling out of trees
  • Orangutans breast feed their young for eight years
  • Gorillas and potatoes have two more chromosomes than people
  • Gorillas sleep about 14 hours a day
  • Gorillas cannot swim
  • Gorillas cannot cough
  • Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses
     Baboon  -  Capuchin  -  Colobus  -  Howler   Marmoset
                        Spider Monkey  -  Squirrel -   Vervet

  • There are about 264 known monkey species
  • Most monkeys have tails
  • Monkeys have four feet
  • Monkeys jump and run along the tops of branches or on the ground
  • Monkey eat fruit, leaves, insects and grass
  • Monkeys can live for about 30 years
  • Monkeys can be found in Asia, Africa and South America
  • Monkeys are very impatient
  • The Aye Aye monkey is found in Madagaska and is a highly endangered species
  • Snub-Nosed monkeys is endangered and lives in China
  • White-face Capuchin monkeys greet one another by sticking their fingers up each other's noses
  • Tarsiers are the world's smallest monkeys
  • The Burmese sneezing monkey sneezes uncontrollably whenever it rains
Ape: 
Young  ............................................  Infant

Chimpanzee:
Male   ..............................................  Blackback
Female  ...........................................  Empress
Young  .............................................  Infant

Gorilla:
Male  ..............................................  Blackback.  Silverbak         
Female  ..........................................  Gorilla
Young  ...........................................   Infant 
Baboon:
Young  ..................................................  Infant

Lemur:
Male  ...................................................  Dictator
Female  ...............................................  Princess
Young  .................................................  Infant

Monkey:
Male  .....................................................  Monkey
Female  .................................................  Monkey    
Young  ...................................................  Infant
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Apes
  1. A shrewdness of apes
  2. A troop of apes 

Chimpanzees:
  1. A cartload of chimpanzees
  2. A group of chimpanzees
  3. A harem of chimpanzees
  4. A troop of chimpanzees
  5. A whoop of chimpanzees
       
Gorillas
  1. A band of gorillas
  2. A troop of gorillas
  3. A whoop of gorillas

Orangutans
  1. A buffoonery of orangutans

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BARBARY APE FAMILY
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Baboon
  1. A congress of baboons
  2. A flange of baboons
  3. A rumpus of baboons
  4. A troop of baboons
  5. A tribe of baboons
       
Lemur
  1. A congress of lemurs
  2. A conspiracy of lemurs
  3. A plot of lemurs

Loris
  1. A colony loris
  2. A drove of loris
  3. A harem of loris
  4. A troop of loris
   
Monkey
  1. A barrel of monkeys
  2. A cartload of monkeys
  3. A mission of monkeys
  4. A tribe of monkeys
  5. A troop of monkeys
  6. A wilderness of monkeys

Tarsier
  1. A harem of tarsier
  2. A herd of tarsier
  3. A plot of tarsier
  4. A troop of tarsier
The Names of the Three Wise Monkeys …
See no evil … … … Mizaru
    Hear no evil   … … Mikazaru
  Speak no evil … … Mazaru 

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LORIS
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A TARSIER - THE WORLD'S SMALLEST MONKEY
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SNUB-NOSED MONKEYS
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AN AYE AYE

SIMILES
Gorilla:
  • As hairy as a gorilla

Monkey:
  • As clever as a cartload of monkeys
  • As hairy as a monkey
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A BABY CAPUCHIN MONKEY
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  1. A monkey's wedding
  2. A right monkey
  3. As the monkey said
  4. Brass monkeys
  5. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  6. Go ape over (something/someone)
  7. Get one's monkey up
  8. I'll be a monkey's uncle
  9. Monkey around
  10. Monkey business
  11. Monkey see, monkey do
  12. Monkey suit
  13. Monkey tricks
  14. More fun than a barrel of monkeys
  15. Naked ape
  16. Parrots and monkeys
  17. Throw a monkey wrench into the works
  18. To ape (something)
  19. To have a monkey on one's back
  20. To make a monkey of ...
  21. To monkey with ...
  22. Who gives a monkey ...