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	Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
		The tail of the common squirrel monkey is prehensile in infants but the adults lose this ability.
		The common squirrel monkey is considered both frugivorous and insectivorous, preferring berry-like fruit on terminal branches.
		The common squirrel monkey travels through the forest quadrupedally on the branches and leaps when it moves in the lower stories of the forest (Fleagle, 1988).
	members.tripod.com /uakari/saimiri_sciureus.html (628 words)

	monkey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The snub-nosed monkey of China and the proboscis monkey of Borneo are langurlike monkeys with peculiar snouts.
		The New World monkeys include the marmosets and tamarins, small monkeys with claws that are classified in a family of their own, the Callithricidae.
		Smaller forms with nonprehensile tails are the squirrel monkey and titi, the nocturnal douroucouli, or owl monkey, the saki, and the ouakari.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/monkey.html (769 words)

	The Phoenix Zoo: News & Media
		Squirrel monkeys only breed for two months and there is intense competition for the females, however, they seem to have a longer breeding season in captivity.
		The common squirrel monkey is native to the northern region of South America, and its range includes Brazil, Venezuela and Columbia.
		Squirrel monkeys are very communicative, and keep in contact with as many as 26 different types of calls.
	www.phoenixzoo.org /news/press_release_detail.aspx?ARTICLE_ID=100112 (569 words)

	Squirrel Monkey
		The common squirrel monkey has distinctive facial markings that include the darkened circle around the mouth and nose.
		Squirrel monkeys rub urine on themselves, which in turn rubs off on branches and foliage thereby marking their territory.
		Squirrel monkeys feed on fruits, insects, and small animals found in the mid-level canopy of the forest.
	www.hilozoo.com /animals/AP_sq_monkey.htm (359 words)

	Squirrel Monkey
		The Squirrel Monkey also marks the territory by a urine wash. The Common Squirrel Monkey often urines on the hands and feet, which then is spread as an animal moves.
		Common Squirrel Monkey - Habitat, reproduction, and behavior of the Squirrel Monkey.
		A squirrel monkey rarely bothers farm plants unless there are farms in its territory then it may steal plants and vegetables.
	www.squirrel-monkeys.com /squirrel-monkeys-general-information.htm (570 words)

	Common squirrel monkey
		Description: The squirrel monkey's tail is not prehensile but it used in balancing as the animal jumps through the trees.
		Squirrel monkeys also spread urine on their hands and feet, perhaps leaving a scent trail wherever the monkey walks.
		Squirrel monkeys carefully smear food on their tails using their hands.
	www.bristolzoo.org.uk /learning/animals/mammals/squirrel-monkey (460 words)

	Squirrel monkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Female squirrel monkeys have a pseudo-penis that they use to display dominance over smaller monkeys, much like the way the male squirrel monkeys display their dominance.
		Squirrel monkeys are omnivores, eating primarily fruits and insects.
		Squirrel monkey at The Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, Az Common Squirrel Monkey at the Henry Doorly Zoo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squirrel_monkey (489 words)

	Bolivian Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The tail of the Bolivian squirrel monkey is prehensile in infants but the adults lose this ability.
		The Bolivian squirrel monkey is considered both frugivorous and insectivorous, preferring berry-like fruit on terminal branches.
		The Bolivian squirrel monkey travels through the forest quadrupedally on the branches and leaps when it moves in the lower stories of the forest (Fleagle, 1988).
	members.tripod.com /uakari/saimiri_boliviensis.html (455 words)

	Monkey Maddness - Species Specific Information - Squirrel Monkeys
		Squirrel Monkeys are slender bodied and their face is covered with white hairs with a dark or fl muzzle.
		Squirrel monkeys communicate through a wide variety of high pitched squeaks and whistles and they often snuggle.
		Squirrels ive in groups of individuals numbering from 10 to 300, depending on how disturbed their habitat is by humans.
	www.monkeymaddness.com /speciesspecific/squirrel.html (408 words)

	The Squirrel Monkey
		Squirrel monkeys have a wide range of calls from chirps and peeps used to keep in contact with nearby monkeys and to raise the alarm, to squawks and purrs during mating, threatening barks and screams.
		Squirrel monkeys often curls their tail over one shoulder when they are resting.
		"Squirrel monkeys are the carrier of the herpes Saimiri virus, which is deadly for marmosets, tamarins and owl monkeys..."
	www.primatecare.com /squirrel.htm (170 words)

	Saimiri oerstedii
		Endangered Wildlife: Squirrel Monkey: One particular subspecies (Saimiri oerstedii oerstedii) on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica is very endangered, with probably less than 2000 animals in the wild...
		This Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) is a resident at Drake Bay Wilderness Camp near Corcovado.
		The Flatland of Photography: A dozen Saimiri oerstedii, squirrel monkeys, swinging from one hook, were all collected, according to their tags, on the same day by the same hunter in the...
	specieslist.com /endangered/scientific_name/S/Saimiri_oerstedii.shtml (3429 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Red-backed squirrel monkey, black crowned Central American squirrel monkey,
		There are two species of squirrel monkey (the other being the common squirrel monkey) and they are the commonest primates in the forests of Central America.
		Red-backed squirrel monkeys inhabit Panama and Costa Rica.
		Red-backed squirrel monkeys are listed as Endangered by the 2000 IUCN Red List, particularly because of deforestation and the use of insecticides, which kill their insect prey.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/307.shtml (232 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Squirrel Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most common coloration is white around eyes, ears, throat, and on sides of neck.
		Squirrel monkey groups are subdivided into adult male bands, mother-infant bands, and juvenile bands.
		INTERPRETIVE INFORMATION: Squirrel monkeys find safety in numbers by feeding in large groups that are too great for the larger monkeys to chase from the trees.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azsqmky.html (324 words)

	Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
		Common Squirrel Monkeys are found in both primary and secondary forests and cultivated areas preferring habitats with streams.
		Sometimes, Squirrel Monkeys drink water from tree holes and on the ground.
		Reproductive data is available for a captive population and indicates a 2-4 month mating period during the dry season.
	brainmuseum.org /Specimens/primates/squirrelmonk (421 words)

	Primate Research in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
		Spider monkeys display a rare form of social organization referred to as fission-fusion sociality in which members of a large heterosexual community with a large home range commonly break into smaller parties of variable composition for daily foraging and travel.
		Di Fiore, however, found that woolly monkeys in Yasuní spend a significant part of their time budget foraging for insects, perhaps as a strategy for laying down fat reserves for the dry season when fruit is not as abundant.
		Like the capuchin, squirrel monkeys are arboreal and favor the middle and lower levels of canopy, and both species have been known to briefly descend to the ground.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/difiore/yasuni/primates.html (3077 words)

	Monkeys of the wild
		The common squirrel monkey is covered in short, soft, thick fur that is usually greenish grey, with white around its ears, face, and belly.
		The squirrel monkey is a highly social animal, living in troops of 70 or more individuals-the largest of any New World monkey.
		The squirrel monkey eats few or no leaves In addition a decline in population because of hunting and animals such as ocelots, mountain lions, and harpy eagles prey upon deforestation, the common squirrel monkey.
	members.fortunecity.com /newbirthuk/monkey.htm (353 words)

	Monkey Maddness Bulletin Board
		I also adopted a Squirrel monkey (female) at the age of 5.
		Monkeys seem like such a good pet, and I would love it if someone could talk to me about it.
		Hello my name is Brad.I have a squirrel monkey name Gizzmo I had him since he was 3weeks old.He is daipper train also.I am 12 years old and a monkey is alot of work.He is the sweetest thing ever.Thank you so much.I was told that the squirrel monkeys makes good pets for children.
	www.monkeymaddness.com /bbm/bbm1540.htm (829 words)

	Laboratory Primate Newsletter Volume 26 Number 4
		The monkeys were being used for an environmental enrichment experiment which evaluated their behavioral and physiologic responses to a cage enrichment apparatus (a device which delivered food and music).
		Thus, the squirrel monkey is susceptible to American leishmaniasis and is capable of responding to the infection with measurable cellular and humoral immunity.
		Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection was documented in a colony of stumptail macaque monkeys with 29 (76%) of 38 monkeys infected and shedding organisms in feces.
	www.brown.edu /Research/Primate/lpn26-4.html (14502 words)

	Social Sciences, Statistics and Mapping -- The Distribution of the Black Squirrel Monkey
		Although it is not known whether Black Squirrel Monkeys are biologically capable of interbreeding with Common Squirrel Monkeys, these observations suggest that significant barriers to interbreeding do occur in the wild.
		That Squirrel Monkeys have not yet colonized this area suggests that even small bodies of water may act as substantial barriers to colonization and to gene flow between populations of Squirrel Monkeys.
		If this is the case, the Black Squirrel Monkey may represent one of the only known examples of a natural extinction in progress.
	www.nyu.edu /its/pubs/connect/archives/01spring/SchwindtMonkey.html (1769 words)

	Monkey Slot Machine: Meet the Cast
		While most squirrel monkeys show no sexual dimorphism, Bolivian squirrel monkeys are sexually dichromatic - with fl on the females and gray on the males.
		Studies of the brain anatomy of fl squirrel monkeys showed that the occipital lobe was devoted to auditory processing and was proportionally the most extensive of all primates except humans.
		The monkeys may also continue to call throughout the night, and can be heard up to two miles away, even in the densest forest.
	www.monkeyslots.com /cast.html (1577 words)

	Owl monkey
		Description: Owl monkeys are one of the most unusual of the new world monkeys.
		The fur is dense and woolly and the ears are hardly visible beneath the fur.
		The Colombian and Andean owl monkeys are both listed as vulnerable, due to destruction of their forest home and hunting.
	www.bristolzoo.org.uk /learning/animals/mammals/owl-monkey (356 words)

	Squirrel Monkeys
		Squirrel Monkeys are often described as one of the most peaceful primates.
		Squirrel Monkeys inhabit virgin and secondary forests of South America.
		Squirrel Monkeys are active in day and night.
	www.squirrel-monkeys.com (337 words)

	Common squirrel monkey
		The word "Monkey": "Monkey" is of unknown derivation, but it may come from the old German story of "Reynard the Fox," in which the ape's son was named "Moneke."
		Description: This species is known as the squirrel monkey because of its small size.
		Behavior: The squirrel monkey lives in the treetops in the forest, in quite large groups of up to 100 monkeys in some areas.
	www.americazoo.com /goto/index/mammals/97.htm (263 words)

	Squirrel Monkey
		This is commonly called the red-backed squirrel monkey and is much rarer than the species we see in captivity.
		It should not catch on twigs or branches and is so light weighted the monkey usually doesn't mind it at all, but it gives you a better chance of catching him, should he decide to take off.
		Many squirrels die from worming because of the lack of experience on the part of the owners and the vets.
	www.monkeyzone.com /the_squirrel_monkey.htm (1156 words)

	The Squirrel Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Squirrel Monkeys move through trees by leaping, Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.
		They are the most common monkey in South-America.
		The Squirrel Monkey offspring are dependent on their mothers for the 6 months, and when the female is sexually mature, she will leave her family group in search of another.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/marielr/squirrelmonkeytext.html (78 words)

	MILLENNIUM FELLOWS ADD NEW KNOWLEDGE TO MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Capuchins are most closely related to squirrel monkeys based on molecular evidence.
		Because capuchins and squirrel monkeys are both primarily arboreal quadrupeds, it is likely that differences in their hand and wrist morphology are related to differences in foraging behaviors rather than locomotion.
		Although capuchins are noted for their superior manipulative abilities that rival those of the chimpanzee, the primate that is most commonly used to model tool-use in early human species and closely related species, studies of capuchin hand and wrist morphology are few and primarily descriptive.
	www.asu.edu /graduate/news/newsarchive/2003/060503.html (894 words)

	Common Squirrel Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Common squirrel monkeys are hated by farmers of the Amazon.
		These monkeys travel in the large groups that they do because they are quite small, about the size of an average squirrel, and need something to protect them, such as the power of numbers.
		They run through the forest on all fours, using their tremendous tails for balance and to help them swing from tree to tree.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/takomaparkms/academics/cs/grade8projects/rainforest/Mammals/commonsquirrelmonkey.html (89 words)

	Squirrel Monkeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		Endangered Wildlife- Squirrel Monkey EEG Delta Activity During Undisturbed Sleep in the Squirrel...
	www.monkeymatters.com /links_squirrel_monkeys.htm (146 words)

	Most Commonly Kept Primate Species - Monkeys kept as pets
		Realize when you buy a monkey that it will be nearly impossible for you to travel since it is very hard to find somebody who can and will take care of your monkey.
		Larger monkeys are able to open refrigerators, doors even with a lock on it, turn over furniture, swing in curtains, open windows and escape....
		Some monkey owners say their monkey is a family member, others talk about their children but they have all one thing in common : they love their monkeys so much that they will do the impossible for them!
	www.primatestore.com /primatechoose.asp (2014 words)

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