Black spider monkey  (Ateles paniscus)

Range

The black spider monkey is found in eastern South America, in northern Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana, north of the Amazon River and east of the Rios Negro and Branco. It may also occur in the eastern tip of Venezuela, but its presence there is unconfirmed (1) (4) (5) (6).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Like all spider monkeys, the black spider monkey inhabits undisturbed primary rainforest, rarely using degraded forest or edge habitats, and preferring to move in the middle to upper levels of the forest (1) (2) (4) (5) (9).

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