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All primates have teeth, a stomach, intestine and bowel.

Humans have a small gut to body weight


ratio. This allows them to divert more blood to their large brains. Monkeys have massive digestive
systems and very small brains compared to humans. Many monkeys have evolved multi
chambered stomachs like ruminants do. The monkey will eat leaves all morning and let them
ferment in one stomach chamber before digesting them. This allows monkeys to eat foods
extremely high in fiber. Humans can't digest fiber well, which is why they can't eat grass and allow
domestic ruminants to do this for them. Monkeys also have larger canine teeth than humans.
Baboons have canine teeth nearly as large as leopards. The teeth are used for defense and also
intimidation displays. Like humans, monkeys are extremely social animals and fairly intelligent.
Monkeys are either vegetarians or omnivores. Humans tend to eat more meat then monkeys do.
In fact, like chimpanzees, humans are apes which will eat monkeys

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