TABLE 1.
Species | Body weight (kg)* | Gyrification** | Precision grip |
Rhesus monkey | 8.3 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
Japanese monkey | 9.9 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
Cynomolgus monkey | 4.7 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
Olive baboon | 25.0 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
Vervet monkey | 4.0 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
Common marmoset | 0.4 | Lissencephalic | Incapable |
Squirrel monkey | 0.8 | Lissencephalic | Incapable |
Capuchin monkey | 1.3 | Gyrencephalic | Capable |
*The information of the average body weight is referred from the articles (Heffner and Masterton, 1975; Bonadio, 2000; Fooden and Aimi, 2005).
**Images of cerebral cortex of the non-human primates can be viewed in the article (Gonzales et al., 2015).