Brown Spider Monkey

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status = CR

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trend = down
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Defler & Rodríguez-M|year=2003|id=39961|title=Ateles hybridus|downloaded=08 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Atelidae
genus = "Ateles"
species = "A. hybridus"
binomial = "Ateles hybridus"
binomial_authority = I. Geoffroy, 1829

The Brown Spider Monkey, "Ateles hybridus", is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Like all spider monkeys, it has very long, spindly limbs and a lengthy prehensile tail which can almost be called a fifth limb. The tail is made up of highly flexible, hairless tips with skin grooves which improves grip on tree branches and adapted to its strictly arboreal lifestyle.

References

External links

* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Ateles_hybridus/ images and movies of the variegated spider monkey "(Ateles hybridus)"]