How to Use spider monkey in a Sentence

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  • This is not the first time agents have found spider monkeys at the border.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The seller did not share the location or area from which the spider monkeys were retreived from.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Future episodes feature a koala named Crikey and spider monkey named Pepe.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Or the spider monkey found dead in a cartel shootout in Mexico state, dressed in a tiny bullet-proof vest.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • By the next summer, another attraction was added at the park – a habitat filled with eight spider monkeys.
    Kelly Kazek | [email protected], al, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Skelton is asking for an exception to any new city rules for her pet, Oakley the spider monkey.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Officers there found a baby spider monkey during a traffic stop.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • From the spider monkeys to the chill pool for the polar bears, Como Zoo features the creatures.
    Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 5 July 2019
  • That means requests could get answered by someone in another state, a bot or a digital spider monkey.
    Alina Dizik, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
  • That expertise has contributed to the full recovery of the five spider monkeys.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The zoo recently added toucans, a spider monkey and the popular red pandas.
    USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • The havoc-wreaking gang consisted of three spider monkeys and two squirrel monkeys.
    Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Who wrote Robert Pattinson's 'spider monkey' line?
    Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The baby spider monkey found in a Rolls-Royce during a traffic stop is in critical shape.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Their findings suggest the animal was a female spider monkey between the ages of 5 and 8 years old at the time of its death.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The spider monkeys enjoy foraging for fresh produce in a pool of ice, while Wilbur, the Kunekune pig, likes dips in the pool.
    Martin Vassolo, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Here, there is a Brachiation Station at which kids can grab on swing from limb-to-limb, like spider monkeys and primates.
    Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • This incident marks the second spider monkey rescue for the Oakland Zoo this year.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
  • Red kangaroos, spider monkeys and pandas are other exotic creatures housed in the zoo.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In the evenings, relax in a hammock and scan the treetops for howler and spider monkeys, or practice your nighttime photography skills with your friends.
    National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Take Brookfield Zoo, for example, where brown bears, spider monkeys and even tamarinds are among those sampling cicadas.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
  • Teotihuacán found the roughly 1,700-year-old skeleton of a spider monkey that was not native to the region.
    Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In an ecosystem fit with extreme animals, like the spider monkey, what could happen if SlothBot doesn’t blend in?
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2021
  • The zoo noted that Rochelle is an experienced mother and that other members of the spider monkey troop have checked in on the mother and child.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Ceratopteris richardii, a fern often used as a model organism in the lab — had genomes comparable in their vastness to the flying spider monkey tree fern.
    Oliver Whang, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Theron voices a spider monkey leading the boy on his quest to take on his mother’s sisters and evil grandfather Raiden the Moon King.
    Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, announced the birth of a spider monkey in a blog post.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 23 Apr. 2022
  • 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 goal is to ultimately improve conservation by learning where and how certain key species—like jaguars, peccaries, spider monkeys, and more—live in the forest.
    National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But half a mile from camp, a peculiar howling echoed through the forest—almost, but not exactly, like that of a spider monkey, the largest simian in the jungle and an excellent source of meat.
    Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023

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