Question

A monkey with a prehensile tail is:
(a)Bonnet monkey
(b)Rhesus monkey
(c)Spider monkey
(d)Semnopithecous

Answer 1

Hint: This monkey hangs from the trees by holding different branches with their limbs and long tails. They do not have a thumb, their four fingers are curved and look like a hook, a special adaptation to live in the forest.

Complete answer:
A monkey with a prehensile tail is a Spider monkey. There are two main groups of monkeys, 'New World monkeys' and 'Old World monkeys. Monkeys in South and Central America are called 'New World monkeys', whereas monkeys in Africa, Asia, and Europe are called 'Old World monkeys'. New World monkeys include marmosets, capuchins, howler monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and spider monkeys. New World monkeys are arboreal, and some have long, slender limbs that permit easy movement in the trees. A few monkeys have prehensile tails which are capable of wrapping around branches and serving as fifth limbs.

Additional Information: -The bonnet macaque or Macaca radiata, also known as zati, is a species of macaque endemic to mainly southern India. The distribution of Macaca radiata is limited by the Indian Ocean on three sides and the Godavari and Tapti Rivers, along with its related competitor the rhesus macaque in the north. In the last few decades, the changes in land use have resulted in changes in its distribution boundaries with the rhesus macaque, raising concern for its status in the wild.
-The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is a species of Old World monkey. It is native to South, Central, and Southeast Asia and has the widest geographic range of all non-human primates, occupying a great diversity of altitudes and a great variety of habitats, from grasslands to arid and forested areas, but also close to human settlements.
- A genus of Old World monkeys native to the Indian subcontinent is semnopithecus or Gray langur, also called Hanuman langur.
So, the correct answer is, ’Spider monkey’.

Note: -A prehensile tail is the tail of an animal that has adapted to understand or hold objects. Fully prehensile tails often want to hold and manipulate objects, and especially to assist arboreal creatures to find and eat food within the trees.
-Belonging to the Ateles, spider monkeys are New World monkeys. Ateies is a part of the subfamily Atelinae and family Atelidae. Like other atelines, spider monkeys are found in tropical forests of Central and South America, and also from southern Mexico to Brazil.