Three are two kinds of tree sloths, the two- toed and the three-toed. Both are found in Central and South America. They were given the name sloth because of their very slow, sluggish movements. Unless they are disturbed, sloths spend three-quarters of the day sleeping. Normally they sleep hanging from the branch of a tree, holding on with their strong claws. The rest of the time they spend eating the leaves and buds of trees. Even their eating is done in the slowest of slow motion.
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Sloths Facts and Sloths Pictures
Capuchin Monkey Facts and Capuchin Monkey Pictures
Quite different from the uakari is the capuchin monkey, which, of the many New World kinds, is perhaps the most common, most captured, and most captivating to human audiences. The capuchin is also the most intelligent of the platyrrhini, with a brain that is highly developed and large in proportion to the size of the … Continue reading
Uakari monkey Facts and Uakari monkey Images
A Monkey that blushes when it is angry is the uakari, which also enjoys the distinction of being the only one of the New World monkeys to possess a short tail, a. feature fairly common in the Old World monkeys. The uakari is a cat-sized monkey with a well-developed brain and superior intelligence. Its favoured … Continue reading
Spider monkey Facts and Spider monkey Pictures
The spider monkey is a true monkey. It has nails on its toes and fingers and it possesses a tail that is prehensile and in many ways more useful to it than its hands or feet. The spider monkey’s tail is its most extraordinary possession. It is longer than the monkey’s body is—over two feet … Continue reading
Marmoset monkey Facts and Marmoset monkey Pictures
Marmosets belong to the family Callithricidae, as opposed to the true monkeys, which belong to the family Cebidae. Yet marmosets have been described by one eminent naturalist as “the most perfectly adapted of all Primates for arboreal existence.” Their movements are quick and jerky, and are carried out with such suddenness that they can disappear … Continue reading
Douroucouli monkey Facts and Douroucouli monkey Pictures
The Douroucouli monkey or Aotes is unique among the New World monkeys in being the only one that is truly nocturnal—night living. Uniqueness in nature is not a matter of chance or caprice, as it may sometimes seem to man, but is the result of selection and specialization for survival. In the douroucouli it is … Continue reading
Squirrel Monkeys facts and Squirrel Monkeys Pictures
“It has, I think, now been shewn that man and the higher animals, especially the Primates, have some few instincts in common. All have the same senses, intuitions, and sensations,—similar passions, affections, and emotions, even the more complex ones, such as jealousy, suspicion, emulation, gratitude, and magnanimity; they practise deceit and are revengeful; they are … Continue reading
Iguanas Facts and Iguanas Pictures
Iguanas are those lizards that belong to the Iguanidae family. There are about seven hundred species of them. They are found only in the New World, in certain islands in the South Pacific, and in Madagascar. In eastern United States the most common iguana is the fence lizard. It is greyish brown but has blue … Continue reading