Their tails can be up to three feet long and act as a fifth limb. Their bodies are usually 15 to 20 inches in length. Their arms, legs and tail are very long in proportion to the body length. The face is black, and there are light markings, or ocular rings around the eyes. They have small heads with prominent muzzles that do not have fur. Their fur color varies from light buff to reddish-brown or black, but their hands and feet are black. It was named after a famous French biologist in the 1800s named Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.ĭESCRIPTION: Black-Handed Spider Monkeys can weigh as much as 20 pounds. The Black-Handed Spider Monkey may sometimes be called the “Geoffrey's Spider Monkey”. Their prehensile (grasping) tails are so strong it can hold the monkey’s entire weight yet so delicate it can pick up items as small as sunflower seeds. It travels throughout tree canopies using its long limbs and tail and when it is stretched out it looks like a giant spider in the trees. The Black-Handed Spider Monkey, a type of New World monkey, is one of the largest New World monkeys. The habitat also once housed Capybara, Chacoan peccaries, and a visiting pair of warthogs.
The new habitat was once home to elephants, which were removed from the Zoo and sent to more appropriate living quarters in 1985.
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The monkeys will have free choice whether to be inside or outside, and large guest viewing windows will be offered in both indoor and outdoor locations. The Zoo's 21st century habitat features a landscaped outdoor yard with multiple opportunities for climbing and engaging in social behaviors. Both Gilligan and TT have been at the Zoo since the opening of the spider monkey habitat in June 2019. The new additions, both female Black-handed spider monkeys ( Ateles geoffroyi geoffroyi) from Montgomery Zoo in Alabama, joined their new troop in the spider monkey habitat this week. Please join us in welcoming our newest Zoo residents! Bertha, 30 years old, and Janet, 16 years old, have successfully been introduced to the Zoo’s current eight-year-old male spider monkey, Gilligan, and TT, a 22-year-old female.
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