Meanwhile, the nocturnal New World owl monkey gets by with just a single kind of photopigment.
Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
The owl monkey is monochromatic, seeing only in black and white.
Scientists believe the monkeys rub the bugs on their fur to ward off mosquitoes, a behavior documented in capuchin monkeys but never in the nocturnal owl monkeys.
The phylogeny of the eight monkeys is relatively well established, except for the interrelationships of the owl monkey, squirrel monkey, and tamarin.
Definition of owl monkey in US English:
owl monkey
noun
another term for douroucouli
Example sentencesExamples
The owl monkey is monochromatic, seeing only in black and white.
Meanwhile, the nocturnal New World owl monkey gets by with just a single kind of photopigment.
The phylogeny of the eight monkeys is relatively well established, except for the interrelationships of the owl monkey, squirrel monkey, and tamarin.
Scientists believe the monkeys rub the bugs on their fur to ward off mosquitoes, a behavior documented in capuchin monkeys but never in the nocturnal owl monkeys.
Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.