Educational resources on Variegated Spider Monkey

Variegated Spider Monkey or Ateles hybridus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A3cd. IUCN Profile of the Variegated Spider Monkey

Academic web links for the Variegated Spider Monkey.

Primate Info Net: Common Names for the Order Primates
English: Variegated Spider Monkey Ateles hybridus brunneus English: Brown Spider Monkey Ateles hybridus hybridus English: Hybrid Spider Monkey
pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/taxonomy/common.html

Dept. of Anthropology, New York University
Jun 2005-Ago 2005 Preliminary assessment of the status of wild populations of the critically endangered variegated spider monkey ( Ateles hybridus ) in a fragmented forest at Maceo
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/Content/STUDENTS/Link/CV-AL.pdf

The A telines Variation in Ecology, Behavior, and Social Organization
0.99 Karesh et al. 1998 A. geoffroyi 9 Geoffroy's (black-handed) 8,210 7,420-9,000 56 7,700 6,000-9,400! 101 1.07 Ford and Davis 1992 VU, EN, CR spider monkey A. hybridus Brown or variegated spider monkey 8,250 7
www.nyu.edu/projects/difiore/publications/difiore&campbell2007.pdf

Number of Threatened Species Tops 12,000: Scientific American
...species of Neotropical primates: the Mexican black howler monkey is now considered endangered, with 56 percent of its natural habitat lost already; the variegated spider monkey of
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