Brown Spider Monkey (Ateles hybridus) - Wiki Brown Spider Monkey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Photo] Brown Spider
Monkey, Ateles hybridus brunneus. Image by Stephen Nash. Source:
http://www.primate-sg.org/brunneus.htm The Brown Spider Monkey,
Ateles hybridus, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New
World monkey, from South America. It is found in Colombia and
Venezuela. Like all spider monkeys, it has very long, spindly
limbs and a lengthy prehensile tail which can almost be called a
fifth limb. The tail is made up of highly flexible, hairless
tips with skin grooves which improves grip on tree branches and
adapted to its strictly arboreal lifestyle. One of the largest
primates in the Amazon, the brown spider monkey reproduces too
slowly to recover from the heavy toll of countless shotguns.
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