Head + Body : 19-20 inches (48-52 cm) Tail :
27-30 inches (70-78 cm)
Weight:
13-25 pounds (6-12
kg)
Description: Spider monkeys are
characterized by their long, slender limbs and
great agility. They travel in small bands in
forest trees, moving swiftly by making tremendous
leaps, sprawling out like spiders, and grasping
tree limbs with their prehensile tails. The fur is
gray to brown or black, with lighter undersides;
the face has white eye rings and is shaded by
projecting hair that is either light or dark in
color.
Range/Habitat: Tropical rain forest
of southern Mexico, Central and South
America
Adaptations: Spider monkeys have
prehensile tails. This tail is the longest and
most powerful of all primates. The hands lack
thumbs. Males will occasionally scent mark
branches by mixing saliva with a secretion
produced from a gland on their chest.
Diet: mainly
fruits and nuts, occasionally invertebrates.
Remarks:
Spider monkeys use specific routes as they
travel through the trees. These routes remain
constant. During the time of the year when fruit
is particularly abundant, they decrease their
daily travel length from 3 miles to around 765
years. Spider monkeys travel by brachiating
through the trees using their prehensile tails as
a fifth limb. These monkeys depend highly on their
keen binocular vision. Spider monkeys live high
in the trees of the rain forest and only rarely
descend to the jungle floor. They forage in groups
ranging from one to twenty individuals. The groups
are constantly changing as individuals come and
go. This gives the group the appearance of being
unstructured but these fluid groups are actually
subgroups of a larger permanent
group.
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