A Japanese Macaque (snow monkey) at Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano prefecture, Japan.

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in vietnam in someone's yard (the man without one arm -- this is his little friend)

A monkey is any member of either the New World monkeys or Old World monkeys, two of the three groupings of simian primates, the third group being the apes. 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 do not form a "natural group", in that the Old World monkeys are actually more closely related to the apes than they are to the New World species. There are 264 known extant species of monkey. Because of their similarity to monkeys, apes such as chimpanzees and gibbons are often called monkeys in informal usage, though biologists don't consider them to be monkeys. Conversely, due to its size (up to 1 metre) 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. Because they are not a single coherent group, monkeys do not have any particular traits that they all share and are not shared with the remaining group of simians, the apes.

Ree Park Safari

It's a monkeys bum

Baby Vervet Monkey in my garden

Capuchin monkeys are tree-dwelling New World monkeys that live in central and southern America. These intelligent and clever monkeys use tools such as stones to crack open nuts, shellfish and crabs. Their abillity to be easily trained gave rise to their exploitation as organ grinder monkeys. They were named by explorers after their resemblance to an order of Catholic friars, the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

Baby monkey not wanting his ears cleaned at Colchester zoo

Snow Monkey/Japanese Macaque at Highland Wildlife Park. Had to shoot through one of those awful bloody perspex things but it worked out ok I think

Monkey eating fruit in the Kruger National Park, South Africa

Monkey near the Nahargarh Fort

Monkeys at the Taj. They were more than happy to be photographed.

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Virunga, Rwanda

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Charity fashion show arranged by Glenda Fu at District nightclub in DC featuring Crooked Monkey's newest line.

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Mother & Child

Affenliebe - Austausch von Zärtlichkeit

Monkey staring in Gibraltar

Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Syracuse, NY

Wednesday 07/04/2012 Phoenix Zoo w/our daughter Gina and her boyfriend Bobby

SB-800 on camera thru Gary Fong Universal Lightsphere Clear w/cloud inverted dome cover @TTL 0.0

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D300+70-200mm f/2.8 VR

Monkeys on the path to the Sun Temple, Jaipur

Con el calor, sigo pensando en las vacaciones, jeje.

Os dije que también estuvimos en LOROPARK ??

A que la foto es muy mona??

(perdón por el chiste, no he podido evitarlo, jajajaja)

Vervet monkey

Taken on Gibraltar. A few minutes after this photo was taken this ape snatched a Japanese tourist's shopping bag. No food... only magazines.

It's Tron, but with monkeys

02/06/2010 Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, Arizona

Taken at the Central Park Zoo

Male Vervet Money in South Africa

Hamerton Zoo

This money gave a pretty photogenic pose

scouting for food i suppose

Having my tasty fruit :-)