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Many people call all primates monkeys. However, apes and monkeys are two different animals.

Here are some of the characteristics of apes:

Among types of apes are gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, humans, and a group of lesser apes called gibbons

Monkeys are divides into two categories: Old world monkeys and new world monkeys. Old world monkeys live in Africa, Asia, India, and Japan. New world monkeys live in Mexico, Central and South America.

Old world monkeys:

Some examples of old world monkeys are the macaque, baboon, snow monkeys, and the colobus.

New world Monkeys:

Examples of new world monkeys are the callimicos, marmosets, tamarins, lemurs, and capuchins. [Source: Tony Northrup Photography]

Capuchin

They are readily identified as the "organ-grinder" monkey, and have been used in several movies and television shows. The range of capuchin monkeys includes Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. They usually occupy the wet lowland forests on Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.

Intelligence

Capuchins are considered the most intelligent New World monkeys and are often used in laboratories. The tufted capuchin is especially noted for its long-term tool usage, one of the few examples of primate tool use other than by apes. Upon seeing macaws eating palm nuts, cracking them open with their beaks, these capuchins will select a few of the ripest fruits, nip off the tip of the fruit and drink down the juice, then seemingly discard the rest of the fruit with the nut inside. When these discarded fruits have hardened and become slightly brittle, the capuchins will gather them up again and take them to a large flat boulder where they have previously gathered a few river stones from up to a mile away. They will then use these stones, some of them weighing as much as the monkeys, to crack open the fruit to get to the nut inside. Young capuchins will watch this process to learn from the older, more experienced adults but it takes them 8 years to master this.

In 2005, experiments were conducted on the ability of capuchins to use money. After several months of training, the monkeys began exhibiting behaviors considered to reflect understanding of the concept of a medium of exchange that were previously believed to be restricted to humans (such as responding rationally to price shocks). They showed the same propensity to avoid perceived losses demonstrated by human subjects and investors. They also may trade sex for money.

During the mosquito season, they crush millipedes and rub the result on their backs. This acts as a natural insect repellent.