Differences Between Madagascar And New World Monkeys

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The ring-tailed lemur is native to Madagascar (Kennedy 2). Madagascar is a tropical rainforest, which is full of different kinds of trees. The environmental restriction of a mostly trees, which is where their primary food source is located, created the greater difference in amino acid coding for hemoglobin. The ring-tailed lemur species divergence time tells us that they are New World Monkeys.

5.) Old world monkeys and New world monkeys have a variety of differences in the habitats they can tolerate and their phenotype. Old World monkeys can stand a wide range of habitats, from the rainforest to the savanna, while New world monkeys are limited to arboreal habitats. Another major difference is in the nostrils of these two kinds of monkeys.