Endangered
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi
Geoffroy's spider monkey is a New World monkey in the family Atelidae (order Primates) — Ateles geoffroyi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The face usually has a pale mask and bare skin around the eyes and muzzle.
Its length measures between 30 and 63 cm (12 and 25 in) and it weighs between 6 and 9 kg (13 and 20 lb).
Range and habitat
The range of this species extends over much of Central America, encompassing Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and the south and much of the eastern portion of Mexico. Observations by local people indicate the southernmost subspecies, the hooded spider monkey, A. G. Grisescens, may also occur in the portion of Colombia near the Panama border. Geoffroy's spider monkey lives in various types of forest, among them rainforest, semideciduous and mangrove forests.
Geoffroy's spider monkey was extirpated on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. At least 18 monkeys were reintroduced, but only five, one male and four females, survived the reintroduction.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Geoffroy's spider monkey is arboreal and diurnal, and mostly inhabits the upper portion of the forest. It lives in fission–fusion societies, large groups with a typical 20 to 42 members, that split into smaller subgroups to forage during the day.
Geoffroy's spider monkey forages over large tracts of forest in search of food. In addition to walking or running on four limbs and climbing, Geoffroy's spider monkey uses several forms of suspensory locomotion. Even so, dominant males appear to mate more often than low-ranking males.
In crisis
As a result of habitat loss, hunting and capture for the pet trade, it is considered to be endangered by the IUCN. Geoffroy's spider monkey is listed as endangered by the IUCN, mostly due to habitat loss and capture for the pet trade. One subspecies is endangered, and two others are critically endangered.
Hunting had eliminated the native population there by 1912. This small group has thrived, and the island population had grown to 28 monkeys by 2003.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Geoffroy's 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 Geoffroy's spider monkey, Wikidata item Q388032. 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.
