Monkeys stamp catalogue

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Monkeys are a group of animals within the order Primates. There are two groups: the new world monkeys from America and the small nose monkeys from Africa and Asia. Apes include all primates. Only the largest ape, man, is not housed here. More

Apes are a group of animals (the infraorder (Simiiformes) within the order Primates. Two groups are distinguished: the big-nosed monkeys (Platyrrhini) from Central and South America and the small-nosed monkeys (Catarrhini) from Africa and Asia. The latter group includes also great apes and man.There are more than 280 species.
In addition to the great apes, the small-nosed monkeys include baboons, mandrills, meerkats and macaques. The latter group also includes the well-known Rhesus monkey and the Barbary macaque, which lives near Gibraltar, among other places. Newly-nosed monkeys include capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys, spider monkeys and howler monkeys. It is believed that a primitive African ancestor of the apes on a piece of unhinged Africa reached South America.
The prosimians (suborder Strepsirrhini), which include lemurs, lemurs, galagos, lorises and pottos, and the tarsiers are primates, but not monkeys. For convenience, they are included in this category. The largest ape, Homo sapiens, also known as man, is not included in this category. This is to prevent the portraits of Elisabeth, Willem-Alexander, Franco and Hitler from obscuring those of the other monkeys.

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Bornean orangutan (1900)