Black Spider Monkey

Black Spider Monkey

1. Specifications

   • Largest primates in South America
   • Prehensile tail
     • Allows them to have stability
   • Black all over, different face colour
   • 7-9 Kilograms
   • The body is 40-60 centimetres
   • The tail is 60-80 centimetres
   • Monkeys don't have thumbs
   • Strong, Long Tail
   • Agile hands and feet

2. Conservation Status

   • Vulnerable
     • Population
       • fallen by 30% over the last 45 years

3. Threats

   • Habitat Loss
   • Hunting by Animals
   • Eagles
   • Jaguar

4. Diet

   • Frugivores
   • 90% fruit and seeds
   • Omnivores
   • Young Leaves
   • Flowers
   • Aerial roots
   • Bark and decaying wood
   • Honey
   • Insects
   • Bird eggs
   • Eat large quantities of food in a short period of time
   • Eat food while hanging or on the move

5. Habitat

   • Central and South America
     • Found In
       • High canopy in the Rainforest
         • Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
         • Evergreen
           • semi deciduous
             • mangrove forests
               • lowland rainforest
                 • mountain forests

6. Breeding

   • Gestation period of 7-8 months
   • Every 2-3 years a female gives birth
   • Mating Rituals
     • Female selects a male from her group with whom to mate with
     • Female fully matured at 4-5 years
     • Time intervals between birth is 17 to 45 months
     • Males sexually mature at 5 years old

7. Life Cycle

   • Birth
   • Juvenile
   • Young Adult
   • Adulthood
   • Death

8. K Selected

   • Large organism
   • Energy used to make each individual high
   • Few offspring are produced
   • Late maturity
   • Long life expectancy
   • Produce more than one offspring in their lifetime
   • Survivorship pattern

9. Other Breeding Programs

   • In captivity in Zoos
   • Very little attention
   • More for tourist attractions
   • Inbreeding depression is threatening the spider monkeys
   • Haven't been successful
   • Zoological is being presented with false information

10. My Breeding Program

    • Captivity Diet
      • Bark
      • Trees
      • Celery
      • Bananas
      • Raisins
      • Apple
      • Orange
      • Carrot
      • Lettuce
      • Wheat Bread
    • Female picks a male to mate with before they are put in captivity
    • Females to be at different reproductive stages
      • To make sure The Spider Monkeys are producing babies at different times
    • Only one sex in each captivity program
    • Highly monitored
      • To stop inbreeding
      • Fix problems
    • female only picks one male to breed with for the rest of her lifetime.
    • Fresh Drinking water
    • ropes above the water to encourage suspensory drinking positions
    • Shelter for extreme weather
    • The enclosure will be changed regularly for variation for both the monkeys and regular visitors

11. Scientific Name

    • Lifestyle: Troop
    • Kingdom: Animalia
    • Phylum: Chordata
    • Class: Mammalia
    • Order: Primates
    • Family: Atelidae
    • Genus: Ateles

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