Description
Book SynopsisAs our closest relatives in the animal world, monkeys have always fascinated and amused humans in equal measure. Monkeys is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these complex, intelligent animals in their natural habitat.
Arranged in chapters covering anatomy, family, behaviour, feeding and young, Monkeys features a wide variety of monkeys and apes, including baboons, gorillas, Orang Utans, macaques, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, marmosets, gibbons, mandrills and chimpanzees.
The smallest monkey is the pygmy marmoset, which can be just 117 millimetres (4.6in) in length with a 172-millimetre (6.8in) tail and weighing just over 100 grams (3.5oz); while the massive Grauer’s gorilla can weigh over 180 kilos (400lbs).
With full captions explaining how the species act in a group, communicate, hunt and feed, and rear its young, Monkeys is a brilliant examination in 230 outstanding colour photographs of these remarkable primates.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1: Old World Monkeys
2: New World Monkeys
3: Monkey relatives
4: Anatomy
5: Survival
6: Family
Species included:
Baboon
Bonobo
Capuchin
Chimpanzee
Gibbon
Gorilla
Howler monkey
Red-handed howler
Coiba Island howler
Amazon black howler
Japanese macaque
Mandrill
Marmoset
Orang Utan
Saki monkey
White-nosed saki
Monk saki
Spider monkey
Peruvian spider monkey
Red-faced spider monkey
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Squirrel monkey
Humboldt’s squirrel monkey
Bare-eared squirrel monkey
Black capuchin
Tamarin
Capuchins
Owl monkey
Woolly monkey
Peruvian night monkey
Black-headed night monkey
Gray-bellied monkey
Red-bellied titi
White-eared titi
