Interesting Facts about Monkeys
- There are 260 species of monkey in the world.
- The loudest monkey is howler monkey and his howl can be heard as far as 10 miles away.
- Monkeys never catch cold.
- Monkeys are divided into two group old world monkeys and new world monkeys.
- The apes are not monkey
- Monkeys live together in groups.
- Pygmy is smallest species in monkeys with weigh only 120 to 140 grams.
- Mandrill is largest species in monkeys with weigh of 35 kg.
- Monkeys are emotional animals, and show their anger, happiness, love, sadness even laugh.
- Baboon sharing 91% DNA similarities with humans.
- Monkey's brain is eaten in china and Africa.
- Able and Baker are first two monkeys which sent to space for experiment. Able died after some months of the mission but Baker Die after 25 years.
- Ramu is an 8-year old monkey living in the Baleswar district of the Indian state of Orissa. The monkey was kept behind bars at the Remuna police station in Orissa for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony.
- Jack, known as Jack the Signalman. This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
- The Guinea baboon is 20 inch tall and weighs only 14 kg, while the largest chacma baboon can be 47 inch tall and weigh 40 kg.
- Gordo (also known as Old Reliable) - He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
- Miss Sam sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.
- A monkey drive is an operation where large numbers of wild monkeys are rounded up and killed in order to protect agriculture such as crops, planted rice, banana and citrus fruit trees. in 1972, 2000 to 3000 monkeys are killed in monkey drives in Sierra Leone each year.
