### animal | vertebrate | mammal | primate | monkey:

Spider monkey
* All spider monkeys are extremely specialized for a highly mobile arboreal lifestyle.
* Most spider monkeys adapt to change environmental conditions
* Most spider monkeys eat fruit
  - ripe fruit
  - feed on fruit
  - find food
  - gather food
* Most spider monkeys have arms
  - flexible arms
  - heads
  - reproduction
  - sexual reproduction
  - inhabit rain forest regions
* Most spider monkeys inhabit tropical rain forest regions
  - lead life
* Most spider monkeys live in rainforests
  - societies
  - tropical rainforests
  - prefer fruit
* Most spider monkeys reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
* Most spider monkeys use hands
  - limbs
  - long limbs
  - weigh pounds
* Some spider monkeys eat leaves
  - nuts
  - escape from zoos
* Some spider monkeys live in canopy layers
  - play roles
  - remain ancestors
* are adept to walk on two legs across the tree top
  - dietary specialists in that the great majority of their food is ripe fruits
  - diurnal and spend the night sleeping in carefully selected trees
  - diurnal, and therefore are awake during the day and asleep at night
  - extremely quick , and they have long , thin fingers with almost no hair at all
* are found in many aspects of the Mesoamerican cultures
  - rainforests in southern Mexico to the northern part of South America
  - frivolous and mischievous
  - mammals
  - omnivores they eat fruit, veggies, and occationally invertebrates
  - primates
  - referred to as the most accomplished acrobats of the forest
  - second in agility only to the gibbons of Asia
  - small primates that spend their days high in the tops of trees
  - the most acrobatic
  - very economical eaters
* breed all year round.
* can dangle their entire body weight from their tail alone
  - hold food with their tail
* eat fruit , nuts , leaves , and small vertebrate 's eggs
  - nuts and fruits that grow on large trees
  - while hanging, climbing, or moving
* exhibit variation.
* find food in the treetops and feast on nuts, fruits, leaves, bird eggs, and spiders
* get their name because of their long arms, legs and tail.
* give birth at any time of the year.
* have an unusual social structure
* have no thumbs or it is reduced to a nub
  - thumbs, so their grasping is done with four fingers
  - one offspring per year
  - slender, dark-haired bodies and long arms
  - very good vision and flexible tails
* move around by swinging from a tree branch to another tree branch
  - swiftly through trees and use their tails as a fifth arm or leg
* resemble chimpanzees in depending heavily on ripe fruit.
* spend most of their time in the forest canopy.
* swing through trees and grasp limbs with their tails.
  - specific routes as they travel through the trees
* use their long limbs to pick their favorite food, fruits
  - tail just as they use their hands
* use their tails and hooked hands to move through the trees
  - as a fifth limb to swing through the branches
  - to cling to trees while they forage for food with both their hands
+ Spider monkey, Diet
  - Habitat and Life Span: Monkeys
  * Spider monkeys are found in rainforests in southern Mexico to the northern part of South America. Spider monkeys live in groups or bands of 10 to 40 monkeys. Every band lives in its own territory and one band of monkeys will not enter the territory of another band. Spider monkeys have one offspring per year. They live between 12 to 45 years
  - Physical description
  * Spider monkeys are extremely quick, and they have long, thin fingers with almost no hair at all. Unlike other monkeys, they use their tail much more than their fingers, and their tails are longer than their bodies. These tails can grasp and pick up things