They have "vestigial thumbs" on their hands, and large big toes on their feet. They are descended from thumbed monkeys, but have evolved/adapted to their arboreal (tree-swinging) lifestyle by having no actual opposable thumb.
Monkeys have 5 fingers on each hand.
In 4 different tipes of forests
A monkey spider. Ironically, it eats spider monkeys.
Spider monkeys lack hearing
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Male spider monkeys become adults at about 5 years old. Female spider monkeys will bear offspring from the age of 4 until they are about 12 to15. A spider monkey normally has one baby at a time, about once every 2 to 4 years, and bearing from one to five young over a lifetime.
Spider monkeys sleep on lower branches
Harpy Eagles prey on Spider Monkeys.
spider monkeys eat fruit and nuts
Spider monkeys are not extinct.
Yes, but seldom with different species. Spider monkeys live in colonies of 15 to 25, and as many as 35 monkeys.
the spider monkeys main predetors are humans and jaguars. in south America spider monkeys are eather caught for food or pets.