Monkeys

Welcome to my page on monkeys.

I picked monkeys because they are my favorite animals and i wanted to know more about them. What do monkeys eat? What is the smallest monkey? Where do most monkeys live?

This is a howler monkey. The howler monkey is the largest monkey in Costa Rica where I took this picture. They are about twenty inches tall, and weighs up to eleven pounds. Howler monkeys rarely touch the ground. They mostly swing through the tree tops The howler monkey mainly eats leaves, flowers, and fruit. Howler monkeys spend 80% of their day and all night resting. Sadly the population of howler monkeys has gone down 50% in the last 15 years.



The smallest monkey is the pygmy marmoset. They live in northern Africa. They eat tree sap, by ripping the bark of the trees off and after two or three days, the sap starts to drip out of the trees. Pygmy marmosets either wait until the sap starts coming out of the trees they made wholes in, or they steal other pygmy marmoset's sap.



Most monkeys of the world live in Africa. The environment there is fit for them. There are the plants and fruits they need to live and there are less humans to destroy their habitats

media type="youtube" key="pOj_QoSH6is" height="344" width="425" Monkeys have been trained to do cool things like ice skating.