Cercopithecidae

This is a family of primates that covers a majority of the monkeys from Africa and Asia. As such, they have been called Old-World Monkeys for many years now. The New-World Monkeys of the America(n) continent(s) separated from them 35-55 million years ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_World_monkey&oldid=1175742223https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catarrhini&oldid=1183831230 Unlike their American cousins, many of these monkeys are at home with the ground, regularly moving from tree to ground as a part of their living habits. Some live on the ground most of the time. They are also more likely to be smarter and aggressive. Some are also tailless, and to define an ape as a tailless monkey is a matter of linguistical choice or culture, rather than to define ape as a member of Homonoidea. Catarrhini may also be called Old-World Monkeys, though it includes Homonoidea. Homonoidea split from Cercopithecidae about 25 million years ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ape&oldid=1182346631 The earliest known Cercopithecidid is from the Oligocene in Egypt.https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cercopithecidae/
Family Cercopithecidae splits into two subfamilies, Cercopithecinae and Colobinae. Cercopithecinae is further split into two tribes, Cercopithecini and Papionini. Colobinae appears to be a group of supergenuses rather than tribes, at least by eyeing the Wikipedia article. Cercopithecines may have cheek pouches for storing food for later, "simple" stomachs, and are prone to exploring alternative food sources and venturing into omnivorism. Colobines lack cheek pouches, exploratory eating, and have more complex stomachs for digesting vegetable matter.
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