They show affection and make peace by grooming each other. They also communicate via expressions, vocalizations and body movements. Monkeys can be arboreal, as well as ground dwellers, which means that they can live in trees or built nests on the ground. Monkeys are also often small in size with the smallest being 4.6 inches with a 6.8 inches tail, weighing 100 grams to 3.3 feet weighing 36 kilograms. Chimps actually belong to the Ape family, which differs from the monkeys greatly.Ī simple way to distinguish the monkeys from apes is to check for a tail monkeys have tails and apes do not, which means that chimps do not have a tail. Monkeys and chimps, although initially believed to be similar in species resulted to belong to complete differ scientific family.
There are more 260 living species of monkeys, many of which are arboreal. Monkeys are primates that belong to the Haplorhini suborder and Simiiformes infraorder. Monkeys can be divided into two groups: Old World monkeys and New World monkeys, excluding apes and humans. Chimpanzees split from the human branch of the family about four to six million years ago. While, both monkeys and chimps are primates, they both belong to families.Ĭhimpanzees or chimps, are actually the closest relatives to the humans, with only a 5% difference in the DNA. The famous Curious George is actually a chimp, and is wrongly referred to as a monkey.
To many untrained eyes, monkeys and chimpanzees can seem similar to the point they are even used in literature wrong. Monkeys and Chimpanzees are often confusing for many people because of their similar looks. Chimps actually belong to the Ape family, which differs from the monkeys greatly. The genus of gorillas, chimpanzees is Gorilla and Pan respectively while the genus is absent in monkeys.Key Difference: Monkeys and chimps, although initially believed to be similar in species resulted to belong to complete differ scientific family. The family of apes is Hominidae and the family of monkeys is Callitrichidae. Apes of species are around 23 only while species of monkeys are hundreds. Note: Species, Family, and Genus are different in gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys. According to comparison of anatomy and genetics, chimpanzees are more related to humans than gorillas. Their skeletal structure is similar to a cat, dog or other four-footed animal. Instead, monkeys run faster on the tops of branches. Monkeys resemble other mammals than apes and humans.įor example, apes and humans can swing from branch to branch but most monkeys can't swing because their shoulder bones have a different structure. Therefore, the correct answer is option D Order. Primates have flexible limbs and grasping hands that make it easy for them to climb from one tree to another. These are characterized by animals having fingers, highly flexible arms, forward-facing eyes.
The apes and monkeys are therefore two kinds of animals but biologically they belong to the same order primates. Therefore, gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys show features of Chordata, they are grouped under the phylum Chordata.Ĥ) Gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys belong to class Mammalia as they share some characteristics of mammals, which is the presence of mammary glands and giving birth to young ones.ĥ) Gorilla and chimpanzee are also called great apes because they tend to share more similarities with humans and also lack tails while most species of monkeys have a tail. The dorsal nerve cord, post-anal tail are some of the features of Chordata. Phylum Chordata includes characteristics such as the presence of notochord which is an elastic rod that extends between the digestive tube and nerve cord, also called the spinal cord. Therefore, gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys belong to the same kingdom Animalia.ģ) The phylum is ranked next to the kingdom. they completely depend on other organisms for a food source and are multicellular organisms. The domain - Eukaryota is defined as organisms having a true nucleus and gorilla, chimpanzee, monkeys have true nucleus therefore they are grouped under the same domain.Ģ) The kingdom Animalia includes all the members which are animals including humans. The taxonomic classification of living organisms consists of the following levels, which are domain, kingdom, phylum, classes, order, families, genus, and species.ġ) The domain is the highest rank of organisms while species is the lowest rank of organisms. Hint: Taxonomy or systematics is the branch of biology that classifies organisms using a hierarchical manner with one or more groups.
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