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Pan troglodytes. Chimpanzees are great apes (not monkeys) who are native to the continent of Africa. If you ever wonder if you are looking at an ape or a monkey, look for a tail. Monkeys have tails, apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, and humans âdo not.
Apes are monkeys. You will find that the animals named monkeys belong to two groups, the Platyrhini and the Catarrhini. The first group consists of New World monkeys-capuchins, howlers, squirrel monkeys, and so on. The second group consists of the Old World monkeys (baboons, macaques, colobus, etc.) and the apes.