monkey

Monkey

Mono is a non-taxonomic term designating a wide range of Simian primates.

The terms are synonymous monkey and ape, [1] but in zoological jargon often distinguished between the influence of English language in the monkey and ape equivalent terms have different meanings. Thus, in the jargon, the monkeys would comprise the current Platyrrhini (New World monkeys), and Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys) but not the hominoid primates closest to man as the orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee and gibbons, which would be apes. Unlike them, the monkeys have tails usually have a more primitive skeleton and are smaller. This use of the word monkey as a translation of the English word ape, restricted to the tailless primates, it is wrong, and not for the Castilian. It is recommended for this use the word hominoid. [2]