Prehensile tails are found on animals which live mainly in forested areas. For example woolly monkeys in South America have prehensile tails, which they can wrap around tree branches and hang from. This frees their arms and legs to search for and gather food. Woolly monkeys have a strip of bare skin at the end of their tail to help increase grip on the branch. For more information about woolly monkeys, find Animal Fact Sheet Number 13.
Primates are a group of mammals consisting of prosimians, monkeys and apes.
Primate specis all have hands with agile fingers and flexible toes which they use to hold things and open fruit and nuts. Primates are also a highly intelligent group of animals and includes our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. Whilst monkeys and prosomians tend to have tails, apes do not, but apes have larger, more complex brains. Pupa are a stage in the lifecycle of an insect. They are made by larvae, infant insects which hatch from eggs and look very different from the adult insect.