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 * Black handed spider monkey by Hannah Blackburn **


 * Classification: ** Animalia>? Can you classify it further?
 * Kingdom: || [|__Animalia__] ||
 * Phylum: || [|__Chordata__] ||
 * Class: || [|__Mammalia__] ||
 * Order: || [|__Primates__] ||
 * Family: || [|__Atelidae__] ||
 * Genus: || [|//__Ateles__//] ||

Some of the differences between males and females are size, the male’s head and body length is 39 – 63 cm when the female’s head and body length is 31 – 45 cm. The male tail length is 70 - 86 cm but the female tail length is 64 – 75 cm the male’s weight is 7.4 – 9 kg, female weight is 6 – 8 kg so the male is clearly lager than the female.
 * Male: ** What differences in appearance, size, etc.

As I mentioned before the male is larger than the female, they have the same colour fur it varies from light buff to reddish-brown or black and as the name implies, the hands and feet are usually black. The face is hairless, with un-pigmented skin around the eyes and muzzle. Infants are born black but lighten in colour in some during the first five months.
 * Female: ** What special features and differences?
 * Young: ** How do they look and how quickly do they grow?

The male is larger than the female and the young are small as baby’s but grow
 * Size: ** Describe the size of a male, female and their young.

The black handed spider monkey gives birth to a offspring in a season
 * Breeding: ** When does this happen, how long is the female pregnant and how many young are produced?

In the zoo their habitat is smaller with logs, leaves and one or two trees. While in the wild spider monkeys like to live in the high tree canopies they are found in more, wet than dry forests.
 * Habitat: ** What is their habitat in the Zoo and how is it different to in the wild?

The black handed spider monkey favours ripe fruits, but also eats leaves. The black handed spider monkey eats leaves in the late morning and late in the day it rests, it uses the same sleeping area repeatedly. This species forges in groups of 1-6 the main group can be up to 15.
 * Feeding: ** What do they eat?

My animal is interesting to me because I haven’t studied a monkey for a school project before and it is cute animal to photograph I didn’t know black monkeys ate leaves I thought they just ate fruit.
 * Conclusion: ** Describe why your animal is interesting to you


 * Extra: ** the black handed spider monkey also is known as The Central American spider monkey, Geoffrey’s spider monkey, Mono Colorado, Panama spider monkey, red spider monkey.

http://www.arkive.org/black-handed-spider-monkey/ateles-geoffroyi/ http://www.theprimata.com/ateles_geoffroyi.html
 * Websites I used to get some info: **