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	Spider monkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Found in tropical forests from southern Mexico to Brazil, spider monkeys belong to the genus Ateles; the closely related woolly spider monkeys, are in the genus Brachyteles.
		Spider monkey groups are further broken down into smaller subgroups of 2-8 individuals; this is unusual as such a social structure is found in only one other primate, the chimpanzee.
		At 107 grams, the spider monkey brain is twice the size of a howler monkey's of equivalent body size; this is thought to be a result of the spider monkeys' complex social system as well as their diet, which consists primarily of ripe fruit from a wide variety (over 150 species) of plants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ateles (568 words)

	Encyclopedia: Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Monkeys range in size from the Pygmy Marmoset, at 10 cm (4 inch) long (plus tail) and 120 g (4 oz) in weight to the male Mandrill, almost 1 metre (3 ft) long and weighing 35 kg (75 lb).
		While baby monkeys are usually as easy to keep clean as a human infant (by diapering), monkeys that have reached puberty usually remove their diapers and cannot be toilet trained.
		The Monkey is the ninth in the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Monkey (2528 words)

	Woolly Spider Monkey (Brachyteles arachnoides)
		The woolly spider monkey is found in the country of Brazil, and lives in the Atlantic coastal forest along the Eastern coast.
		The woolly spider monkey is primarily a folivorous species, but also consumes fruit, seeds, flowers, nectar, pollen, bark, bamboo, and ferns.
		The woolly spider monkey moves through the forest in both a quadrupedal and suspensory fashion, and suspension is an important feeding posture (Fleagle, 1988).
	members.tripod.com /uakari/brachyteles_arachnoides.html (919 words)

	monkey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The snub-nosed monkey of China and the proboscis monkey of Borneo are langurlike monkeys with peculiar snouts.
		Prehensile tails are found in the spider monkey and woolly monkey as well as in the howler monkey, the largest member of the family, which has a voice that carries several miles.
		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)

	Encyclopedia: Spider Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Species Brachyteles arachnoides Brachyteles hypoxanthus Woolly spider monkeys, or muriqui, are the monkeys of the genus Brachyteles, which is closely related to the spider monkeys and the woolly monkeys.
		Sometimes many spider monkeys will charge a human on a bridge and push him out into the river and then throw rocks at the human as he swims to shore.
		In spider monkey society, such pranks are lighthearted and not meant to cause lasting physical harm.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spider-Monkey (1645 words)

	Resources on the Woolly Spider Monkey from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PRIMATES; CEBIDAE; BRACHYTELES: Woolly Spider Monkey, or Muriqui: PRIMATES; CEBIDAE; Genus BRACHYTELES Spix, 1823.
		Monkeys, Apes and Humans: Milton, K. Urine washing behavior in the woolly spider monkey.
		An Infectious Clone of Woolly Monkey Hepatitis B Virus:...from the medium of transfected cultures initiated an infection in a spider monkey similar to that obtained with virions derived from woolly monkey serum.
	mongabay.org /conservation/Woolly_Spider_Monkey.htm (890 words)

	Monkey,Mammals,Monkey Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The term monkey is commonly applied to a large number of primates, excluding only the tree shrews, the lemurlike forms, the apes, and humans, and therefore embraces an enormous evolutionary and adaptive array of animals.
		In the New World monkeys the ear drum (tympanum) is encased in a bony ring (tympanic ring), and both the eardrum and the bony ring are at the surface of the skull.
		All species except the colobus monkeys have hands and feet of moderate length and with opposable first digits (thumbs and big toes); in the colobus monkeys the thumb is reduced to a small nub or may be totally lacking.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=105 (7007 words)

	Brachyteles or muriqui and woolly spider monkey - TheWebsiteOfEverything.com
		The pelage of the woolly spider monkey is short and dense, but their limbs are long and slender.
		Woolly spider monkey Woolly spider monkey in the news Brachyteles arachnoides Brachyteles hypoxanthus Woolly spider monkeys, or muriqui, are the monkeys of the genus Brachyteles, which is closely related to the spider monkeys and the woolly monkeys.
		Giant otters, jaguars, and the woolly spider monkey are becoming increasingly rare due to the destruction of their habitat.
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Primates/Cebidae/Brachyteles/index.html (711 words)

	SPIDER-MONKEY - LoveToKnow Article on SPIDER-MONKEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They take their English name from the slimness of the body, the elongated limbs, and the long tail, thc under surface of the prehensile extremity of which is naked, The thumb is either rudimentary or wanting, so that the hands act merely as hooks in climbing.
		The absence of woolly underfur, the less compressed nails, and the broader partition betweer the nostrils distinguishes them from the woolly spider-monkeys (Brac/zyieles.) The species are numerous, and the most activc and thoroughly arboreal of all American monkeys.
		These monkeys generally g about in small parties, high up in the trees; and, like the othe] members of the group, are comparatively silent.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPIDER_MONKEY.htm (182 words)

	Spider monkeys. (from Monkey) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Spider monkeys (genus Ateles) are exceptionally acrobatic, exceeded in their agility perhaps only by the gibbons.
		The limbs and prehensile tail of the spider monkey are unusually long relative to its body length.
		The woolly spider monkey is the largest monkey in South America and is intermediate in structure and appearance between the woolly monkeys (genus Lagothrix) and the spider monkeys (genus Ateles).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-213145 (780 words)

	* Spider - (Animals): Definition
		Spider monkeys use several different types of locomotion: quadrupedal, using all four limbs for locomotion as seen while walking or running; suspensory locomotion used when hanging,...
		Spider monkeys are active during the day and are found in various group sizes from singly to about 40 depending on the scarcity or otherwise of the fruits on which it feeds...
		Spiders and their close relatives are placed together in the Class Arachnida, which includes the scorpions, harvestmen or daddy longlegs, ticks and mites, and a few other less well known groups...
	en.mimi.hu /animals/spider.html (1502 words)

	Animal Info - Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey
		The hair of the yellow-tailed woolly monkey is long and thick, an adaptation to its cold montane forest habitat.
		The yellow-tailed woolly monkey lives in the montane cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes at elevations of 1700 - 2500 m (5600' - 8200'), where there are steep gorges and ravines.
		Woolly monkeys have powerful prehensile tails, the lower third of which is covered on the bottom with fingerprint-type ridges that aid its grip
	www.animalinfo.org /species/primate/lagoflav.htm (931 words)

	Woolly spider monkey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They are the two largest species of (Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails) New World monkeys, and the northern species is one of the most endangered of all the world's (Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)) monkeys.
		They are found only in the Atlantic coast forests of southeastern (The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter) Brazil at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1500 m.
		Muriqui are (additional info and facts about polygamous) polygamous, and unlike many other primates males spend large periods of time together without significant aggressive encounters.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/woolly_spider_monkey.htm (226 words)

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		Several species are endangered due to loss of forest habitat, for example the woolly spider monkey and fl saki of the Amazonian forest.
		Old World monkeys (family Cercopithecidae) of tropical Africa and Asia are distinguished by their close-set nostrils and differentiated thumbs, some also having cheek pouches and rumps with bare patches (callosities) of hardened skin.
		New World monkeys of Central and South America are characterized by wide-set nostrils, and some have highly sensitive prehensile tails that can be used as additional limbs, to grasp and hold branches or objects.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0008427.html (263 words)

	Woolly Monkeys of Ecuador.
		There exist 2 species of woolly monkeys on the American continent with one of them found in the country, the Humboldt's woolly monkey in the Amazon jungle.
		Woolly monkeys are social animals living in troops of 7 to 70 individuals and often mix with other related primates like the howler, capuchin or spider monkeys.
		Young Wooly Monkeys or chorongos, which is their common name, are caught to be sold as pets, their mothers often killed in the process.
	www.ecuador-travel.net /information.biodiversity.mammals.woolymonkey.htm (208 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Articles - The spider monkey and the rainforest
		They are closely related to the woolly monkeys (Lagothrix spp.) and the muriqui Brachyteles arachnoides, or woolly spider monkey, the largest of the neotropical (South American) primates.
		Spider monkeys are slightly smaller, but adult weights typically exceed 6kg, with males and females similar in size and appearance.
		Muriqui, or woolly spider monkey Brachyteles arachnoides: Brazil.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/animals/features/192hanging.shtml (323 words)

	Woolly Spider Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The spider monkey is a large monkey noted for using its tail as an extra limb.
		Spider monkeys are found in the tropical forests of the Western Hemisphere, from central Mexico to central Bolivia.
		Spider monkeys are among the most threatened of the New World monkeys.
	www.coredcs.com /~rrastedt/prime/wool/index.html (199 words)

	Woolly Spider Monkey Skull
		Woolly Spider Monkey Skull - The woolly spider monkey is the largest of the new world primates.
		The woolly spider monkey lives a diurnal, arboreal existence in the rain forests of Brazil.
		The woolly spider monkey is classified as endangered.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /woolly_spider_monkey_skull.html (89 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spider monkeys, woolly monkeys and howler monkeys are very good at this.
		In the Woolly Spider Monkey (Lagothrix spp), it is the females that leave the natal troop to join another troop.
		The Woolly Spider Monkey is among the largest South American primate (at 9kg) and its numbers fell from 400,000 when Europeans first arrived in South America to 3,000 in 1971 to 700 in 1996.
	www.szgdocent.org /resource/pp/p-cebid.htm (647 words)

	spider monkey -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spider monkeys weigh about 6 kg (13.2 pounds) and are 35–66 cm (14–26 inches) long, excluding the heavily furred tail, which is longer than the body.
		Squirrel monkeys are 25–40 cm (10–16 inches) long, not including the heavy nonprehensile tail, which is...
		Old World monkeys all belong to one family, Cercopithecidae, which is related to apes and humans, and together they are classified as catarrhines (meaning “downward-nosed” in Latin).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=70906 (754 words)

	Zoo -- Monkey House
		The howler monkeys look more typically monkeylike; large and highly arboreal; have prehensile tails and are widespread.
		New World monkeys are less aggressive than baboons or macaques.
		Forming troops are the spider monkey (Cacajao genus) and capuchins.
	members.aol.com /plcooney/zmonkey.html (1253 words)

	Pictures of the muriqui or woolly spider monkey\|Brachyteles arachnoides facts
		The Woolly Spider Monkey is among the largest South American primate (at 9kg) and its numbers (Full text)
		The muriqui, or woolly spider monkey, is the largest New World primate, and in the late 1980s was recognised as two distinct species: the southern (Brachyteles arachnoids) and northern muriqui (B. (Full text)
		The pelage of the woolly spider monkey is short and dense, but their limbs are long and(Full text)
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Primates/Cebidae/Brachyteles/Brachyteles-arachnoides.html (331 words)

	Spider monkey - Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Spider monkey (Ateles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spider monkeys are heavily hunted and are in danger of becoming extinct.
		Surely she was a Miriki Spider Monkey and a fine specimen at that, but as this variety is usually found only farther south in Brazil, her captor was
		Spider Monkey Ateles paniscus Head and body length is 382-635 mm and tail In general, spider monkeys are vulnerable to hunting and habitat loss due to
	globalinfoplus.com /?q=spider-monkey (200 words)

	Cebidae or New World monkeys - TheWebsiteOfEverything.com
		The other family of New World monkeys, the Cebidae, is composed of a very diverse group of monkeys including capuchin (or organ grinder) monkeys, howler, spider, woolly and woolly spider monkeys, bald-headed uakari monkeys,(Full text)
		The Cebidae is an agglomeration of eleven genera: the squirrel monkey (Saimiri spp.
		However, the New World monkeys are sufficiently different from the others to warrant their placement in a separate infraorder (Platyrrhini).
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Primates/Cebidae (554 words)

	Spider monkey - black spider monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They eat fruit and leaves, as do the acrobatic spider monkeys, In a few magical hours, I spotted two troops of spider monkeys and three of howlers.
		Spider monkeys have lots of enrichment activities to choose.
		Spider monkeys spend most of their lives in the very tops of the trees in the Columbian rainforest, Spider monkeys use their long tail as an extra limb.
	linksession.com /q/spider-monkey.htm (217 words)

	ChimpanZoo Web Site: Atelinae Subfamily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The thumbs of spider monkeys are either reduced or sometimes missing altogether.
		This is an adaptation for brachiation, since they use their hands as hooks to swing from branch to branch and opposable thumbs would hinder this process.
		Spider monkeys have long, slender limbs with slightly longer forelimbs.
	www.chimpanzoo.org /atelinae.html (222 words)

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		Spider monkeys howl, bark or neigh to call to each other.
		The spider monkey wild population of 400 in 1993.
		Spider monkeys live in areas with a high concentration fruit.
	www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us /hhs/endspeci/Mammals/SPIDMONK.HTM (193 words)

	Monkey Spider Woolly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A monkey spider woolly photo can be found on websites devoted to wildlife; no farm breeds these creatures for sale.
		When the animal is on the lookout, it stands or walks on two feet, using the tail to hold on for support.
		The howler monkey babies are protected by the conservation groups from hunting.
	www.monkeys-monkeys.com /monkey-photo/monkey-spider-woolly.html (212 words)

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