spider monkey
noun
: any of a genus (Ateles) of New World monkeys with long slender limbs, the thumb absent or rudimentary, and a very long prehensile tail
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Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Given that the spider monkey infants are too young to be released back to the wild without a mother to feed and protect them from natural predators, they’re brought to the Texas zoo for care.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The species of spider monkey is native to southern Mexico along with northern Central America and is extremely social.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Given that the spider monkey infants are too young to be released back to the wild without a mother to feed and protect them from natural predators, they’re brought to the Texas zoo for care.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The species of spider monkey is native to southern Mexico along with northern Central America and is extremely social.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Spider monkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spider%20monkey. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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