What is the function of a monkey's tail? What are the varieties?

Monkeys are very clever and lively animals, commonly known as primates and the highest group in the animal kingdom. They have well-developed brains, flexible thumbs, and can spit shells just like humans when eating. Monkeys are distributed all over the world and can be divided into three categories: high, medium and low in terms of evolution. The monkey's tail is very flexible, thin and long, and is often called its fifth hand. what is the function of the monkey's tail? What varieties do you have?

What is the function of a monkey's tail?

1. Keep your body in balance

The monkey sometimes climbs and walks, and the tail plays a role in maintaining the balance of the body.

2. Winding effect

When a monkey runs around a tree, you will find that it will wrap its tail around the branches and sometimes come to get food. The monkey's tail is very strong. Don't look at the slender, it can help it sleep upside down.

3. Help dissipate heat

Some species of monkeys have bare tails, mainly to help dissipate heat when the weather is hot.

What are the species of monkeys?

The species of monkeys are different according to different classification methods.

If you look at the way of exercise, there are baby monkeys, tarsal monkeys, giant lemurs, weasel lemurs, etc.; finger types include chimpanzees and gorillas; four-legged ones include loris, macaques and most of the new and old world monkeys; arm-swinging types are mainly gibbons and orangutans. If the food intake is divided by type, the insectivorous monkeys are mainly infant monkeys, mouse lemurs, marmosets, crab-eating monkeys, tarsal monkeys, and so on, and most of them are nocturnal; leaf-eating monkeys, colobus monkeys, howler monkeys, noseback monkeys, gorillas, and so on, are mostly diurnal; and omnivorous are mostly diurnal primates. In terms of mating types, monogamy includes lemurs, marmosets, capuchins, monkeys, night monkeys, tarsus monkeys, long-tailed monkeys, parts of leaf monkeys, all of gibbons and humans; polygamous types include long-tailed leaf monkeys, gorillas, red monkeys, white eyelids and weasel lemurs; solitary types include yellow orangutans, koala monkeys, baby monkeys, finger monkeys, loris, lemurs, and so on. Here is a more common one:

1. Golden monkey: there are five species of golden monkey: Burmese golden monkey (Nujiang golden monkey), Sichuan golden monkey, Yunnan golden monkey, Guizhou golden monkey and Vietnamese golden monkey, among which except Burmese golden monkey and Vietnamese golden monkey, they are all precious animals unique to China.

2. Macaques: rhesus monkeys are mainly distributed in southern Asia, Indonesia, Philippines and Japan. They like to inhabit grasslands, forests, marshes and so on. They usually feed on tender branches, leaves and wild vegetables, and can also prey on smaller creatures.

3. Spider monkey: the spider monkey's tail is very flexible, the function is similar to the hand, the winding ability is very strong, can walk upright. It is so named because its limbs and tail are like spiders. Spider monkeys are mainly distributed in the tropical forests of South America, and the general population can reach more than 30.