0 a small, thin South American monkey that uses its long tail to help it to move around in the branches of trees
Geoffroy's spider monkey lives in various types of forest, including rains, semideciduous and mangrove forests.
First, spider monkeys had a higher defecation rate in the early morning, just before starting to move from their sleeping sites.
Geoffroy's spider monkey forages over large tracts of forest in search of food.
Geoffroy's spider monkey uses several forms of nonvocal communication.
Geoffroy's spider monkey lives in fissionfusion societies that contain between 20 and 42 members.
During this time, spider monkeys generally eat extensively and then enter a first resting period.
Spider monkeys generate a heterogeneous seed deposition pattern because they scatter-disperse seeds diurnally, whereas they clump-disperse seeds at their sleeping sites.
Spider monkeys fed on the fruits of at least 152 plant species and swallowed seeds from more than 98% of these.
