Monkey

The scientific name.

Colobus guereza kikuyuensis

I need to find a black and white colobus toy or hand puppet today! What stores might sell them in my area? I have a presentation due tomorrow and the puppetstore.com lost my monkey. Any suggestions???

Try searching at http://www.unima-usa.org or http://www.puppeteers.org

Both sites are for American puppetry and will have links/info to companies.

ok hi!! i was just wondering how to do a dicho. key for my science homwork- i choose monkeys- anyways i dont want people to say your just want us to do your homework but i need an example!!! i already have the monkey/ baboons 2 of them are Black-and-white colobus monkey and the common wolly monkey how can i start the key? please and thank you 5 stars
noob answers will rot and no smart sass answers just give me an example doesnt have to be the monkeys

Divide your animals into 2 groups as evenly as possible (not necessary but efficient). Then keep dividing each group until you get down to single species. You might want to start by separating the New World monkeys from the Old World ones.

What is the name/names of the most recent common ancestor between Tarsiers and Colobus Monkeys? Extra pts if you can name many ancestors in order from oldest to youngest.

Amphipithecus, Apidium, and Eosimias.

Specifically, the Kikuyu Colobus monkey?

Old World Monkeys all have nails, I’m pretty sure.

I’ve been doing some research and, having a little trouble, thought I’d come for some help.

Marmoset,
Tamarin,
Capuchin,
Squirrel Monkey,
Saki,
Mandrill,
Mangabey,
Colobus,
Langur,
and Douc.

Nothing specific as you can see but behavior and physiology in a general sense. I do have behavior for some of these, but I wish to make sure that it’s accurate. Even if you can’t help with all of them, any is appreciated. Thank you.
Mandrill,

Here’s a bit of information about the behavior of these species, taken from the Animal Diversity web (link below).

Marmoset: diurnal, arboreal, and scansorial (=climbers). They live in family groups of between 8 and 10 individuals.

Tamarin: diurnal, arboreal, territorial. Forms groups of 2-19 individuals.

Capuchin: diurnal and arboreal. They form groups of 8 to 15 animals with a leading male. Social grooming is common.

Squirrel Monkey: they are diurnal and live in large social groups (40-50 individuals on average)

Saki: these form large groups with both males and females (up to 40 individuals), splitting into smaller troops to forage. They have a typical behavior of "huddling" when they face a threat.

Mandrill: they live in groups of up to 50 individuals, with a dominant male. During the day they live on the ground, and at night they sleep in trees.
Their social behavior involves displaying their brightly colored parts. A lot is known about their behavior repertoire, check the ADW below for more information.

Mangabey: these monkeys form groups of 10-35 individuals, including several males that mostly live together peacefully. Their tail movements may be used for communication.

Colobus: diurnal and highly arboreal, but they feed and move on the ground when the forest is not dense. They form groups of up to 15 individuals, usually with one adult male (the rest are females and juveniles).

Langur: diurnal and arboreal. They live in groups of about 7 members with 1 to 2 males and 5 to 6 females.

Douc: arboreal and diurnal, usually forming groups of 4 to 15 (but up to 50). Groups include both males and females, apparently each sex has a separate dominance hierarchy, and males are dominant over females. They’re playful and rarely aggressive.

An interesting thing about marmosets and tamarins is that they give birth to twins. These, as well as the squirrel monkeys, are small species with high metabolic rate. The rest are middle- to large-sized, they usually take longer to develop and also live longer.
For specifics on their physiology I think you’ll have to consult the scientific literature, because some species are fairly well-known but others are not.
You can start with this site that offers a list of resources about primate physiology, but not all of them are species-specific: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/anat/index.html
You can also search using the academic Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=physiology+of+primates

Hope this helps!

if anyone could please help me check if the information i wrote was valid, it would be MUCH appreciated.

Scientific Name: Nycticebus coucang
Common Name: Slow Loris
Type: Prosimian
Has tails: yes
Prehensile tails: no
Fingernails: yes
Sexual dimorphism: no
Brachiation: no
Semibrachiation: yes
Quadrupedal: no
Vertical climbing / leaping: yes
Bipedal walking: no
Endangered: yes
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Scientific Name: Ateles belzebuth hybridus
Common Name: Colombian Brown Spider Monkey
Type: New World Monkey
Has tails: yes
Prehensile tails: yes
Fingernails: yes
Sexual dimorphism: yes
Brachiation: no
Semibrachiation: yes
Quadrupedal: yes
Vertical climbing / leaping: yes
Bipedal walking: no
Endangered: yes

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Scientific Name: Mandrillus sphinx
Common Name: Mandrill
Type: Old World Monkey
Has tails:yes
Prehensile tails: mo
Fingernails: ?
Sexual dimorphism: yes
Brachiation: no
Semibrachiation: yes
Quadrupedal: yes
Vertical climbing / leaping: no
Bipedal walking: yes
Endangered: yes

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Scientific Name: Nomascus gabriellae
Common Name: Gabriella’s Crested Gibbon
Type: Ape
Has tails: no
Prehensile tails: no
Fingernails: no
Sexual dimorphism: yes
Brachiation: yes
Semibrachiation: no
Quadrupedal: no
Vertical climbing / leaping: yes
Bipedal walking: no
Endangered: yes
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Scienctific Name of species: Colobus angolensis palliatus
Common Name of species: Eastern Angolan Colobus
Tail: yes
Prehensile tail: no
Nails on fingers: no
Sexual dimorphism: yes
Form or locomotion: ?

I’ll try to help by pointing the parts that might be wrong.

- For the slow loris: the tail is vestigial.
It has fingernails, but the second toe has a long, curved claw.
I would not describe its locomotion as semibrachiation. It has been called "slow climbing" (see this paper http://www.anat.stonybrook.edu/FunMorG/PDFs/ruff.pdf)

- For the mandrill: they do have nails, as all the Cercopithecidae (see http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cercopithecidae.html)
Mandrills are usually considered quadrupeds – I’m not sure about the bipedal walking.

- For the gibbon: I’m pretty sure it has nails, like all other "true monkeys" with the exception of the Callithrichidae.

- For the colobus: they are arboreal, and they perform "quadrupedal galloping and bounding, and leaping" (according to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110484897/abstract ; and by the way, this author also argues that the category "semibrachiation" has no real meaning).
They are also members of Cercopithecidae so they have nails on their fingers.

You can also find other common names for some of those species if you check the pages below.

Hope this helps!

Are these land giants same species or is it a case of colobus monkey to squirrel monkey ?

"Although successful hybridisation between African and Asian Elephant species is highly unlikely in the wild, in 1978 at Chester Zoo, an Asian elephant cow gave birth to a hybrid calf sired by an African elephant bull (the old terms are used here as these events pre-date the current classifications). "Motty", the resulting hybrid male calf, had an African elephant’s cheeks, their ears (large with pointed lobes) and legs (longer and slimmer), but the toenail numbers, (5 for each front foot, 4 hind) and the single trunk finger of an Asian elephant. His wrinkled trunk was like that of an African elephant. His forehead was sloping with one dome and two smaller domes behind it. The body was African in type, but had an Asian-type centre hump and an African-type rear hump. The calf died of infection 12 days later[69]. It is preserved as a mounted specimen at the British Natural History Museum, London. There are unconfirmed rumours of three other hybrid elephants born in zoos or circuses; all are said to have been deformed and none survived."

since both elephant species have the same number of chromosomes, one of the major barriers to hybrid fertility does not exist. If an hybrid succeeds in becoming an adult, it is potentially fertile.

where can i find this information?
also for these sepcies?:
potto___%?
golden lion tamarin___%?
black spider monkey ___%?
patas monkey____%?
mantled colobus monkey___%?
siamang___%?
white fronted brown lemur___%?

This depends on who is doing the counting & how it is done. It varies between 95 & 98.5%.
Humans and chimps can have 95% or >98.5% similar DNA depending on which nucleotides are counted and which are excluded. Modern humans can have a single recent ancestor <10,000 or 100,000-200,000 years ago depending on whether a relationship with chimpanzees is assumed and which types of mutations are considered. The link below can explain the reasons for disagreements.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i1/DNA.asp

The San Diego Zoo has them but Isis shows that the Wild Animal Park only has one, which is odd for a monkey species. They might be working on shipping more in our out so if you really need to know I would call them.

If you want to know what zoos have what the following webpage is an excellent resource. It of course does not list every zoo but most of them. You can search by the common or scientific name.

http://isis.org/CMSHOME/