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The red-faced spider monkey is a habitat specialist, found in undisturbed primary rainforests, [5] in northern Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and Venezuela. [3] Because of its ability to climb and jump, it tends to live in the upper layers of the rainforest trees and forages in the high canopy. [5]
As is the case with all species of spider monkeys, the brown spider monkey is threatened by hunting and habitat loss. Spider monkeys form loose groups, typically with 15 to 25 individuals, [23] but sometimes up to 30 or 40. [24] [25] During the day, groups break up into subgroups. The size of subgroups and the degree to which they avoid each ...
Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) Platyrrhini is a parvorder of primates. Members of this parvorder are called platyrrhines, or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is one of three clades that form the suborder Haplorrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are ...
The Atelidae are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised. It was formerly included in the family Cebidae. Atelids are generally larger monkeys; the family includes the howler, spider, woolly, and woolly spider monkeys (the latter being the largest of the New World monkeys).
The Peruvian spider monkey (Ateles chamek), also known as the black-faced black spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey that lives in Peru, as well as in Brazil and in Bolivia. At 60 centimetres (2 feet) long, they are relatively large among species of monkey, and their strong, prehensile tails can be up to 1 m (3 ft) long.
The Atelinae are a subfamily of New World monkeys in the family Atelidae, and includes the various spider and woolly monkeys. [2] The primary distinguishing feature of the atelines is their long prehensile tails, which can support their entire body weight. Atelines live on the American continent from southern Mexico through central Brazil and ...
Such studies by Collins and Daubach (2000, 2001, 2006) indicate the Geoffroy's spider monkey is more closely related to the white-fronted spider monkey, A. belzebuth, and the brown spider monkey, A. hybridus, than it is to the red-faced spider monkey, A. paniscus.
Muriquis are the largest extant New World monkeys. They can reach 4.3 feet or 1.3 metres long and weight up to 7 to 10 kilograms (15 to 22 lb). [ 4 ] The northern muriqui is a critically endangered species, it is estimated that there are less than 1000 mature individuals in the wild. [ 2 ]