Endangered
White-cheeked spider monkey
Ateles marginatus
The white-cheeked spider monkey is a spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Brazil.
Appearance
The white-cheeked spider monkey is a spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Brazil.
Range and habitat
The white-cheeked spider monkey is commonly found in the Brazilian Amazon. The area in that it is most likely to be found is between the Rio Tapajós (right bank) and its tributary, the Rio Teles Pires/Sao Manuel (right bank) and the Rio Xingu (left bank), south of the Amazonas River. A portion of their territory lies also within national forests such as Tapajós National Forest (545,000 ha (1,350,000 acres)), Xingu National Forest (252,790 ha (624,700 acres)), Altamira National Forest (689,012 ha (1,702,590 acres)), Itaituba I National Forest (220,034 ha (543,720 acres)), and Itaituba II National Forest (440,500 ha (1,088,000 acres)).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The diet of the white-cheeked spider monkey consists of fruit, leaves, flowers, aerial roots, bark, decaying wood, honey, and even some small insects such as termites and caterpillars.
In crisis
The population of this monkey is decreasing as its forest habitat is lost to soybean production, deforestation and road construction. For these reasons, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the animal's conservation status as being "endangered".
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
White-cheeked 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 White-cheeked spider monkey, Wikidata item Q944704. 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.
