What is the difference between a monkey and a lemur?

In order to understand the differences between lemurs and other primates, it helps to go down a level. Primates can be broken into two suborders: anthropoids and prosimians. Monkeys, apes and humans are anthropoids. Lemurs are prosimians. read more

• Diversity is much higher among monkeys in terms of the number of species as well as the body sizes compared to lemurs. • Monkeys have been evolved with a small nose, but lemurs have a long snout. • Lemurs have better olfaction sense compared to monkeys. read more

They are thin forward facing teeth with space between them so they can be used for grooming. To clean the toothcomb lemurs have a sublingua, a “second tongue” under their regular tongue. Like other primates lemurs also have fingernails but on the second toe they have a specialized grooming or toilet claw. read more

As nouns the difference between monkey and lemur is that monkey is any member of the clade simiiformes not also of the clade hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches while lemur is lemur. read more