THE MONKEYS

THE MONKEYS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MONKEYS. 
 
There are around 260 species of monkeys in the world. Some examples are Baboon, Chimpanzee, Marmoset, Gorilla, Mandrel, …

Monkeys live in trees and they live in groups. Monkeys are omnivorous, mamals and vertebrates.

HOW MUCH THEY LIVE AND WHERE.

The number of years that the monkeys can live depends on their species. For example, Mandrel can live around twenty years, Cebus Capucinus more than forty years and Cebuella Pygmea around twelve years.
There are lots of places where the monkeys can live. An interesting place is the jungle of  Africa. There live the monkeys with others wilds animals like elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, gazelles, etc.
They can live also in the zoo. There, they are in cages and people goes to visit them and they take photographs.

WHAT  MONKEYS EAT

The favorite food of the monkeys are bananas. But they eat everything: fruits, insects, plants, flowers, eggs of the birds, seeds, leaves. That’s why monkeys are omnivorous, as we have said at the beginning..

Carmen Pascual