White-cheeked spider monkey (Ateles marginatus); r ange: Central Brazil Black-headed spider monkey ( Ateles fusciceps); r ange: Colombia, Ecuador, Panama Geoffroy’s spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi); ...

Spider monkey males and females are both known to have multiple sexual partners, ... Surinam, and Brazil—is still vulnerable to extinction. Human activities including farming, ...

The spider monkey "walked up to me to give me a very warm welcome and show off her pregnant belly," Casey Cooper told ... A stock image of a black-faced spider monkey sitting in a tree in Brazil.

Brazil: Saving endangered monkey helps forest. October 20, 2012 at 2:01 p.m. | Updated October 20, 2012 at 12:01 p.m.

VILA VELHA, Brazil, Jan. 20 (UPI) --A recent survey of Brazil's Caparao National Park turned up a rare discovery -- a new group of northern muriqui, one the planet's most threatened primate species.

Brazil's coastal Atlantic forest is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. ... including the endangered maned three-toed sloth and the wooly spider monkey. ...

Some species of spider monkey living in the Amazon rainforest actively choose to eat fruit ... “Spider monkeys eat mostly fruit pulp,” says Thiago Cavalcante of Brazil’s National Amazon ...