Merry positive monkey dancing on the screen of your phone in different clothes.

Merry positive monkey dancing on the screen of your phone in different clothes.

Monkeys are haplorhine ("dry-nosed") primates, a paraphyletic group generally possessing tails and consisting of approximately 260 known living species. Many monkey are tree-dwelling (arboreal), although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Most species are also active during the day (diurnal). Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys; instead they are strepsirrhine primates. They are also not monkeys. There are two major types of monkey: New World monkey (platyrrhines) from South (catarrhines of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea) from Africa and Asia. Hominoid apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans), which all lack tails.