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Sea Monkeys have been a part of pop culture since the late 1960s and early 1970s. These interesting tiny aquatic creatures make educational pets for people of all ages. Owners enjoy watching their underwater antics for up to two years. Consider a Sea Monkey tank, because these little shrimp can be very addicting. more »
If you don't like the idea of settling for a pet dog or cat, you might want to start looking for pet monkeys. In many states and cities throughout the U.S., it is perfectly legal to keep a pet monkey in your home, as long as you provide adequate care. But how do you go about finding pet monkeys? more »
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Sea Monkeys are the commercial name given to the Artemia NYOS brine shrimp. This type of brine shrimp was created in a lab, and since the 1960s has been a favorite pet to millions of people. Sea Monkeys are instantly hatched from dried eggs. The eggs are available from a Sea Monkey kit, and from online retailers. Follow these simple... more »
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Monkeys come in a variety of sizes from the very small to the very large. They can be found throughout the world and even in some people's homes.... more »
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A monkey is any cercopithecoid (Old World monkey) or platyrrhine (New World monkey) primate. All primates that are not prosimians (lemurs and tarsiers) or apes are monkeys. The 264 known extant monkey species represent two of the three groupings of simian primates (the third group being the 21 species of apes). Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent and, unlike apes, monkeys usually have tails.
The New World monkeys are classified within the parvorder Platyrrhini, whereas the Old World monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea) form part of the parvorder Catarrhini, which also includes the apes. Thus, scientifically speaking, monkeys are paraphyletic (not a single coherent group) and Old World monkeys are actually more closely related to the apes than they are to the New World monkeys.
Due to its size (up to ) the Mandrill is often thought to be an ape, but it is actually an Old World monkey. Also, a few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name.
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "monkey" may originate in a German version of the Reynard the Fox fable, published circa 1580. In this version of the fable, a character named Moneke is the son of Martin the Ape. The word Moneke may have been derived from the Italian monna, which means "a female ape". The name Moneke likely persisted over time due to the popularity of Reynard the Fox.
The term monkey is an artificial grouping; it is not a "good" taxon, but instead it is a paraphyletic group, like "fish". A "good" taxon, as most modern biologists consider it, is a monophyletic group, that is, a group consisting of all the evolutionary descendants of a single ancestor species. The term monkey covers all platyrrhines (flat, broad noses) and some catarrhines (nostrils-downwards), but excludes the apes.
A group of monkeys may be referred to as a mission or a tribe.
Characteristics
Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Ma read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
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