Endangered
Black-headed spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps
Black-headed spider monkey is a New World monkey in the family Atelidae (order Primates) — Ateles fusciceps, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
A. F. Fusciceps has a black or brown body and a brown head. A. F. Rufiventris is entirely black with some white on its chin.
The head and body length, excluding tail, typically ranges between 39.3 and 53.8 cm (15.5 and 21.2 in).
Range and habitat
A. F. Fusciceps lives in tropical and subtropical humid forests between 100 and 1,700 metres (330 and 5,580 ft) above sea level. A. F. Rufiventris lives in dry forests, humid forests and cloud forests, and can live up to 2,000 to 2,500 metres (6,600 to 8,200 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Black spider monkey is primarily frugivorous, with the consumption of fruit consisting of about 80% of their diet. The remainder of its diet is omnivorous and consists of leaves, nuts, seeds, bark, insects, and flowers.
The black-headed spider monkey is arboreal and diurnal. Most travel is done by brachiating and climbing through woodland areas. When mating, females may consort with a male for up to three days, or else mate with several males.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Black-headed spider monkey is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Black-headed spider monkey, Wikidata item Q653650. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
