monkey facts

• The monkeys of the world are divided into two groups: the Old World monkeys of Africa and Asia and the New World monkeys of Central and South America
• A group of monkeys is called a troop
• All monkeys like to be clean so they have a barber monkey clean out their fur, the barber monkeys reward is the bugs in his customer's hair.
• In sexual and dominance displays vervet monkeys run the gamut from shaking branches and jumping around to making a hard 'kek-kek-kek' sound to mark their territories.
• A monkey will chew gum for a few seconds, but then it will take it out and stick it in it's hair.
• Young Spider Monkeys like skydiving! They'll climb into a tree about 20 meters off the ground and jump off.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana