Transcript Spider Monkey

Spider Monkey
By:
Cortney Bickley
Description
Classification
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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
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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