Tail is prehensile. Habitat description Tropical forests from southern Mexico, south to Bolivia and the Matto Grosso in Brazil. Range from sea level to higher ground. The spider monkey has always lived in its current habitat. In the wild they sometimes rob bird nests, or obtain nectar from the dendrophytus blossoms that they tear open.
Spider monkeys are omnivores they eat fruit, veggies, and occationally invertebrates.
Who else does animal compete with The spider monkey competes with other species of monkeys for fruit and the many other recources that they share Average life span Spider monkeys live to the average age of 25 years. Why endangered So many Spider monkeys have been shot for food that they are absent from much of their former range. They are vulnerable because they have low maturation and reproduction rates. Their habitat, mature rain forests, is being lost to farming at the rate of 35,000 acres a day. At this point I do not have an actual count of the population of spider monkeys in the world.