Old World monkey

(Animals) any monkey of the family Cercopithecidae, including macaques, baboons, and mandrills. They are more closely related to anthropoid apes than are the New World monkeys, having nostrils that are close together and nonprehensile tails. Compare New World monkey

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Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

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Cercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey

monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

guenon, guenon monkey - small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face

mangabey - large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

Erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas - reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa

baboon - large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

langur - slender long-tailed monkey of Asia

colobus, colobus monkey - arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs

Nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey - Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose

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The paper, 'Systems underlying human and Old World monkey communications: One, two, or infinite,' is published today in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

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Sykes' monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis), also known as the white-throated monkey or Samango monkey, is an Old World monkey found between Ethiopia and South Africa, including south and east Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The mandrill is a primate of the Old World monkey family and is one of two species assigned to the genus Mandrillus.

Rare baby mandrill monkey born at Paphos Zoo

Genomic DNA was isolated using a standard protocol from heparinized blood samples from the following species: (1) Hominoid: chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and gorilla (Gorilla gorilla); (2) Old world monkey: rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis), African green monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops), colobus (Procolobus badius), and langur (Trachypithecus cristatus); (3) New world monkey: marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus), and night monkey (Aotus trivirgatus); (4) Strepsirrhini: ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

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"These fossils indicate that, instead, Old World monkey dispersal could have taken place through the Arab region even before the Messinian Crisis," said Dr.

About 7m year old fossilised monkey tooth found in Abu Dhabi

Dr Gilbert, one of the scientists in the study, told WAM: "These fossils indicate that, instead, Old World monkey dispersal could have taken place through the Arabian Peninsula even before the Messenia Crisis."

Seven-million-year-old monkey tooth found in Abu Dhabi

A suitable series might include a hedgehog (an insectivore with a small, relatively simple brain), a tree shrew (a squirrel-like mammal once thought to be a primitive primate), and a sequence of primate levels (prosimian, New World monkey, Old World monkey, ape, and human).

The evolution of the neocortex from early mammals to modern humans

These two sequences, which branch off alone in the RV2 genogroup, independently of all other Old World monkey viral strains, may represent the prototype strains of a great apes lineage similar to that found in the RV1 genogroup.

Novel [gamma]-2-herpesvirus of the Rhadinovirus 2 lineage in gibbons

Members of his lab have dealt their fatal blow by sequencing the Y chromosome of the rhesus macaque-an Old World monkey whose evolutionary path diverged from that of humans some 25 million years ago-and comparing it with the sequences of the human and chimpanzee Y chromosomes.

Doubts cast over theory of men's 'rotting' Y chromosome