Monkey Facts

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.

Gorilla's have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.

Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10ºC.

The Old World monkeys include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World monkeys are exclusively arboreal. Some New World monkeys have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.

Monkeys are divided into two geographically separate groups - the New World monkeys of South America and the Old World monkeys, found in Africa and Asia.