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No. Like humans, all monkeys and apes are herbivores. The relatively newly discovered fact that some apes have begun killing and eating others apes does not make them carnivores.
If by carnivorous, meaning "only meat eating", then no. Most apes, while primarily feeding on vegetation, can also eat bugs and meat, i.e. omnivores by taxonomy. The greater question is are any apes (including homo sapiens) purely vegetarian? Gorillas are only known to eat vegetation, orangutans add insects to that diet, and chimps even kill and eat smaller mammals. While apes could survive on a purely vegetarian diet, their anatomies could not sustain a purely carnal diet.
The only exception:
There is one species of purely carnivorous primate. It's called a Tarsier.
They're categorized as a Haplorhine (new and old world monkeys, apes, and humans) though were previously categorized as Strepsirhines, (which are lemurs and lorises).
They are nocturnal by nature, and only live in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. By what you consider to be carniverous, they might not be, but by actual definition, because they only eat insects, frogs, and reptiles.
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What does a primate mean?
Primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including humans.
Do apes prefer apples to any other fruit?
Apes have preferences like people do. They may develop a taste for apples in zoos but in the wild, most apes do not live where there are apples.
What animals eat poultry?
Any carnivorous animal
What animal eats flowering plants?
humans, apes, monkeys, rabbits like dandelion flowers, most grazing animals, or any animal that will pretty much eat anything they can
What is Jane Goodalls personality like?
she was a primatologist. ya know she learned how to talk to apes, any way is she dead or not!?
Are there any carnivorous monkeys or apes?
no
Of any other animal that behaves like humans?
Apes and Monkeys.
Do monkeys have a tail?
Barbary macaques have no tail. Also, apes. Don't let anyone tell you that we, apes, are not monkeys. We are old world monkeys. We are catarrhini monkeys. So there's your answer. Barbary macaques and apes. I don't know of any other monkeys with no tail.
What does primate mean?
Primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including humans.
Are apes monkeys?
No. Monkeys are not apes.Monkeys differ from apes as they have atail (usually),smaller brain,quadrupedal pronograde posture,and a usually longer face.Most monkeys cannot swing arm-over-arm (the spider monkey is an exception) but move about in trees by running along the branches on all fours.A few monkey species have the word "ape" in their common name.While all monkeys are not apes, apes, however, can be classed as monkeys. Animals typically called as "monkeys" by the public are actually two very distinct sets of animals: what are actually "Old World monkeys" and "New World monkeys". Old World monkeys are demonstrably more closely related to apes (a class that includes humans) than they are to New World monkeys: Old World monkeys and apes (and us humans) belong to the parvorder Catarrhini, while New World monkeys do not. They belong to their own parvorder, Platyrrhini.To say that Old World monkeys and New World monkeys are related to each other but not to to apes would be the same as saying your sister and your cousin are more closely related than you and your sister are; or that a Chevy Silverado and a Ford F-150 are more closely "related" because they bear a superficial resemblance, than a Chevy Silverado and a Chevy Impala -- both of which are obvious nonsense. Thus, if the term "monkey" is going to mean anything, it must be grouping for all the members of Catarrhini and Platyrrhini together, and that would include apes, and that would include us (as members of Catarrhini). Effectively, any primate that is not a prosimian or a tarsier (in other words, infraorder Simiiformes) is a variety of monkey. Some primates are monkeys, some monkeys are apes, and some apes are humans.
how did ape/monkeys envolve to humans?
Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees or any of the other great apes that live today.
What was the first language spoken by monkeys?
Monkeys don't technically "speak" any language. (While we're getting technical: I'm not sure off the top of my head if there have ever been any language studies done on "monkeys." Apes, yes; monkeys I'm less certain of.) Several species of great apes (chimpanzees and gorillas for sure) have shown that they can acquire at least a limited understanding of human speech, and a few have been trained to respond using sign language or by pushing buttons on a sort of modified typewriter. Whether this constitutes "language" or not is a subject of some debate.
What has two legs and has one backbone?
Any of the hominids (monkeys, apes, humans) are among the animals that have two legs and one backbone.
Do human apes exist?
Humans and apes are two different, although related species. Any particular specimen would be either one or the other, not both.
What is the most common mammal in the Tropical Rain forest?
it would probably be any species of monkeys there are a lot of monkeys in the rainforest
How many different monkeys are there?
There are 264 known species of monkey that are not yet extinct.Monkeys usually fall into to main categories, whether they are primates from the Old World or the New World. Those from the New World are from the Americas (South and Central) and there are about 13 types. There are about 6 types from the Old World (Africa and Asia) and these include about 135 species.
Are there any monkeys in Russia?
i don't think there are so much monkeys special species are exported from other countries.
