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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 Dimensions.
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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 Dimensions • The spider monkey has a small stomach, with long brown or black legs. 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 • The spider monkeys live in the lowlands of the rain forests from Mexico to South America. • Environment • 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 • When the monkeys are in groups they jump on each other and chase each other. Characteristics • 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 • They chew there food off of trees. Then they eat it. Life span • 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.
HistoryPresent Status • Spider Monkeys were found in the lowlands of the rainforest from Mexico to South America. • 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