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= Variegated Spider Monkey ﻿ = "There here today but can be gone tomorrow."

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The scientific name for the variegates spider monkey is Ateles hybridu. The name spider monkey was inspired by their exceptianlly long, spindly limbs, together their long prehensile tail that acts like a fifth limb. Their tails have highly flexible hairless tips with skin grooves that help to grip. This is an adaption to the spider monkey’s strictly ardoreal lifestyle.Spider monkeys also possess narrow and thumbless, hook-like hands, with fingers that are curved. In the limbs and head of a spider monkey the colors range from a light brown to a rich mahogany. Some individuals have been observed with eyes that are a striking pale blue. The inner sides of the limbs and inderside of the tail are pailer, buff color, and they have white triangular patch marks on their foreheads. Their thumbs are not opposable, their brains are less complez, and their nostrils are further apart.

Variegated spider monkeys live in primary rainforest, old tress, or usually confines itself to the upper levels of the canopy. Also found in northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.

﻿They can live up to 27 years in the wild.


 * Description **
 * Physical Description || The variegates spider monkey range from colors of light brown to a right mahonagany, some have pailer, buff colors, and white triangular patch marks on their foreheads. ||
 * Behavior || The variegated spider monkey is a very social species living with both males and females in their clans, has groups of 2 to 30 members. ||
 * Diet || 90% of their diet is fruit and seeds, sometimes bark and decaying wood and honey. ||
 * Reproduction || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">gives birth toa single offspring every 3 to 4 years. ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The variegated spider monkey was considered to be endangered November 19, 2003. Their estimated population in less than 1,000. They are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests and hunting. They feel treatened by humans cutting down trees in the rain forest, which is their natural habitat. This leaves them homeless and even killing them. To save them we can set up protected areas, save forests, and house them in natural parks. A law passed in the 1970's, it was designed to protect endangered species from extinction. We would make the fines greater and make people who commited the crime to stay in prision longer. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">By the mid-nineteenth century many governments had developed an interest in wildlife conservation and an awareness of the need to protect natural habitats.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sizes **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Male head and body length: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">47 – 50 cm ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Male tail length: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">76 – 81 cm ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Male weight: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 kg ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Female head and body length: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 – 48 cm ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Female tail lenght: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">74 – 76 cm ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Female weight: || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">7.3 kg ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read more: [|The Endangered Species Act - History Of Species Protection, The Endangered Species Act Of 1973 (esa)—a Landmark Protection] []

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] is the website of an organization that i devoted to keeping the variegated spider monkey alive. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">many of this information was found on [|www.arkive.org]