All monkeys love bananas. For breakfast, dinner, snacks and lunch, they all crave bananas, munch, munch, munch!
Monkeys are mostly omnivorous, eating nuts, fruits, leaves, flowers, vegetables, bark, roots, rodents, birds, invertebrates, and more—pretty much whatever is available in their habitat.
Monkeys are omnivorous animals and prefer eating a range of foods. Their regular diet often includes nuts, fruits, seeds, eggs, insects, and lizards. Depending on the monkey species and location, they have adapted their diets to the foods available. Some species are frugivores, which means they mainly eat fruit.
What wild monkeys eat: Frugivore and omnivore species: Bananas, mangoes, frleshy fruits like berries, pomes, and drupes, and other fruit. Frugivore and omnivore species: Grass, leaves, flowers, buds, seeds, gum, nectar.
Generally, they do eat fruits, like figs, but also seeds, leaves, flowers, insects, and nuts. Gelada monkeys prefer to munch on grass and baboons even eat meat when they catch it such as young antelope, rabbits, and birds like guinea fowl. Personally, I'd prefer bananas.
A study from 1936 even offered monkeys fruits, vegetables, nuts, and bread to see what they would choose to eat more of. Bananas ranked right behind grapes; nuts and bread were last. "Of course monkeys and apes are not stupid and relish eating them once they are exposed to them," Milton said.
Monkeys probably don't know much about nutrition, but they know they love bananas. Why? It's probably because bananas tend to grow in the hot, tropical areas where monkeys usually live. They're a convenient source of food that provides a lot of nutrients in a small package.
Monkeys are scared of snakes. Keep real looking plastic snakes at roof tops or boundary wall of your house. Loud heavy noise, bursting of crackers or their sound track will force the monkeys to leave any premises. An injured monkey should be helped when monkey group is not close by.
Humans are not the only primates that enjoy watching TV -- this was the discovery of a research team that monitored a monkey's brain activity while it watched TV and confirmed the animal was enjoying itself.
Monkeys don't care much for human music, but apparently they will groove to their own beat.
“You'll often see the male approach the female and sometimes he'll tap her or get in her face to get her attention and he'll make faces such as lip smacking, where it's rapid movement of the lips, or jaw thrusting, where the lower jaw is stuck out and the head is raised.
“Male titi monkeys show jealousy much like humans and will even physically hold their partner back from interacting with a stranger male,” says Bales. The researchers induced a “jealousy condition” in male monkeys by placing them in view of their female partner with a stranger male.
Dietary content for primates
The natural diet of primates differs from species to species. For example, all marmoset species gouge branches to feed on plant gums, as well as eating fruit, flowers, insects and other small animals such as spiders, lizards and snails. Macaques are omnivorous, and eat both plants and meat.
HABITAT AND DIET
Most monkeys live in the tropical rainforests of Asia, Africa, and Central and South America, or the savannas of Africa.
Strengths: sociable, clever, curious. Weaknesses: unreliable, mischievous, disrespectful.
Tiny primates form close bonds that may be foundation of human relationships. Take owl monkeys, tiny tropical tree-dwellers that treat every day like it's Valentine's Day. A male and a female stick together as long as possible, never cheat, and never "divorce" their mates—extremely unusual behavior, even among people.
Decades of animal research has shown that social status is connected with stress. Typically speaking, monkeys with a higher rank in their group are less stressed and have lower levels of stress hormones like cortisol. Low-ranking monkeys, on the other hand, have higher rates of stress.
Empathy: Chimpanzees are capable of feeling a wide range of emotions, including joy, happiness and empathy. They look out for one another and often provide help when needed. For example, both male and female adults have been observed adopting orphaned chimps in the wild and at the Tchimpounga sanctuary.
According to a new study from Chinese neuroscientists Fan Xu and colleagues, some monkeys can experience depression in a similar way to humans.
The chemical Capsaicincontained in chilli is an excellent repellent against monkeys, squirrels, and some other wild animals. Farmers who grow chilli will also benefit from an extra source of income.
A "threat" face (open mouth, ears and forehead forward, presumed to be the expression for anger, when a monkey is threatening others) A "lip smack" (lips are smacked together over and over again, presumed to be the expression for affiliation or appeasement)
Monkeys, both in groups and alone, display increases in social behaviours like grimaces, teeth chattering, lip smacking and threats when mirrors are placed around them.
Monkeys are omnivores, but there are some things that they will not eat as they can be toxic for them. For example, monkeys do not like medicinal plants such as Tulsi, Sarpagandha, or aloe vera. Other plants like the Devil's Trumpet are poisonous to most animals, so monkeys will also avoid it.
Millions of years ago, our ancestors lived, and probably slept, in trees. Today's chimpanzees and other great apes still sleep in temporary tree beds or platforms. They bend or break branches to create a bowl shape, which they may line with leafy twigs. (Apes such as gorillas sometimes also build beds on the ground.)
About 82 percent of the time, the apes laughed spontaneously, producing a panting-like sound when a playmate surprised them by, for example, throwing a stick; 18 percent of the time, the chimps produced short chuckles in response to their playmate's laughter.