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Spider Monkey By: Cortney Bickley Description Classification • • • • • • • Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate Class: Mammalian Order: Primates Family: Adelaide Genus: Abeles Species: Geoffrey Shape • The spider monkey has a small stomach, with long brown or black legs. Dimensions male female • Length: 38-48cm 42-57cm • Height: 20in. 20in. • Weight: 9-10 kgs. 6-8kgs. Colors and markings • Some colors and markings of the spider monkey are gold, red, brown, or black. • The spider monkeys hands and feet are black. Habitat • Parts of world • Environment • The spider monkeys live in the lowlands of the rain forests from Mexico to South America. • The environment the spider monkeys live in are in 75 degrees and lower temperatures. Diet • Spider Monkeys do not eat meat. • 90% of the spider monkeys diet is fruit and seeds. 10% is leaves, flowers, and tree bark. Family Life • One baby is born every two to five years. • The gestation is 226-232 days. • The spider monkey is not born in a certain month. • The shelter the spider monkey lives in is in a nest in a tree. Family Life Span • The mother takes care of the baby for as long as one year. The first five months the baby clings onto the mothers back. Social Behaviors Characteristics • When the monkeys are in groups they jump on each other and chase each other. • Temperament: Spider monkeys have a temperament on animals on the land that are not in trees. Habits and unique behaviors • When they are alone they have a loud bark that is harder then they bite. Defenses • Some of the defenses the spider monkey have are grunting, and roaring. • They are the loudest animals on land. Acquiring food Life span • They chew there food off of trees. Then they eat it. • The life span of a spider monkey is 22 years old in the wild but different in the zoo because of special attention. Others • Did you know that spider monkeys have no thumbs. • They use there tails as a fifth finger. History • Spider Monkeys were found in the lowlands of the rainforest from Mexico to South America. Present Status • The spider monkeys live in the evergreen rainforests. • They never are on the ground because they are always in the trees. Relation to humans • The spider monkeys have a similar eating habit like us humans. • They eat fruit like us. They also have arms to eat with like us humans do. Others • They spider monkey gets there name by hanging on trees with four hands and a tail. • There brains are very complex. Websites • • • • • • • • www.wikipedia.org www.zooschool.ecsd.net www.petmonkeyinfo.com www.science.jrank.org www.honoluluzoo.org www.nationalgeographic.com www.answer.com www.buzzle.com