Critically Endangered
Kaapori capuchin
Cebus kaapori
The Kaapori capuchin, also known as the Ka'apor capuchin, is a frugivorous, gracile capuchin endemic to the Brazilian Amazon.
The primate
On average, the adult male Ka'apor capuchin weighs approximately 3 kg (6.6 lb).
Range and habitat
The Ka'apor capuchin has been described as having one of the smallest geographical ranges of any other Cebus species in the Amazon. Due to the large human population living in the same area, the species tend to live in isolated patches of tall, lowland terra firme forest. Included in their range, are two protected stretches of land: the Gurupi Biological Reserve and the Lago de Turucuí Environmental Protection Area.
This project had devastating repercussions on their habitat. Flooding over 2,000 km2 and creating thousands of islands of between 1 and 1,000 hectares in size where land once was.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Like most capuchins, the Kaapori capuchin is diurnal, arboreal and omnivorous. One study of the species in the wild concluded that almost 75% of their diet was composed of fruit matter such as fruit pulp or the aril of immature fruit.
From their research, the scientists concluded that the Ka'apor capuchins' diet resembles most closely that of the Sapajus genera than their fellow Cebus species. When foraging for insects, the capuchins can be observed practicing various techniques such as extracting their prey from leaves by breaking them manually, breaking branches with their teeth and hands in order to reach the ants inside and smashing snails against trees in order to crack their shells open.
In crisis
With the strong human presence nearby,C. Kaapori has had to deal with very large amounts of disturbances to their habitat and is one of the most endangered of the neotropical primates. The species is among the most threatened primates in the Amazon. As of 2017, the population of C. Kaapori has decreased by over 80% and is categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List.
As one could expect, this caused heavy degradation to the surrounding forest, leaving the remaining forest fragmented. As for many other species in the Amazon, the Ka'apor capuchin has also been a victim of hunting and poaching.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Kaapori capuchin is Critically 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 Kaapori capuchin, Wikidata item Q1365676. 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.
