Fun with nouns A group of apes is called a tribe or a shrewdness, while a group of monkeys is called a barrel, cartload, tribe, troop or wilderness. Gorillas come in bands, troops or harems.

Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys use tools to get food. Primates often groom each other by picking off dirt and ticks, not just to stay clean, but also to build friendships and settle fights.

Monkeys and apes are essential to the health of the forest. They are seed dispersal agents and gardeners. Some fear that without them we may not have any have forests in the future. In the 17th ...

Spider monkeys are large New World monkeys that live in tropical rainforests from central Mexico in the north to Bolivia in the south. There are seven species of these agile primates, which get ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...