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# Monkey

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Approximate worldwide distribution of monkeys.
Cynomolgus Monkey at Batu Caves, Malaysia
Monkeys, Mori Sosen (1749-1821)

Monkeys are a kind of primate. There are many different kinds of monkeys. They mostly live in trees. They usually eat fruits, leaves, seeds, nuts, flowers, insects, spiders, eggs, small animals, and sap from trees. Some monkeys are used for experiments, and they can be kept as pets. They can live in forests, and are commonly found in all the rainforests of the world.

Some monkeys are very small, about 10 cm long and 120 g in weight, while other monkeys can be very big, about 1 metre long and 35 kg in weight.

There are two types of monkeys, New World monkeys and Old World monkeys. New World Monkeys live in America and Old World monkey live in Europe and Asia.

The name monkey may have come from a German story called Reynard the Fox which was written around 1580. In this story, a character named "Moneke" is the son of "Martin the Ape". The word Moneke may be from the Italian monna, which means "a female ape."

A group of monkeys is called a "mission" of monkeys or a "tribe" of monkeys.

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