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Black Spider Monkey

Black spider-monkey (Ateles paniscus). This is one of the main monkey species encountered in healthy tropical rainforests. Its prehensile tail allows this monkey to find stability when sitting on branches, to reach out for food at the tip of fragile branches by suspending...

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Black Spider Monkey

Ateles paniscus Black spider monkey Feeding on mouldering wood out of a hole in a dead tree. Lowland rainforest, landscapes, flora and fauna. Manu National Park, Peru

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Black Spider Monkey

Kimboto tree. This tree has developed important buttress roots in order to find stability on the forest's thin ground. New research tend to show that the buttress roots act as the shroud of a boat holding the mast. French Guiana

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Black Spider Monkey

Black spider-monkey (Ateles paniscus). This is one of the main monkey species encountered in healthy tropical rainforests. Its prehensile tail allows this monkey to find stability when sitting on branches, to reach out for food at the tip of fragile branches by suspending...