#0259 · 🦊 mammals

Central American Spider Monkey

🇳🇱 Zwarthandslingeraap ·Ateles geoffroyi

ENendangered 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © relet · CC0
2. © BB 22385 · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © relet · CC0
4. © Cameron McIsaac · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © ColinDJones · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. United States:© mirandac28 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © tomo_m · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Kevin Schafer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Romario Barragán · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Quintana Roo, MX:© wtvz · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Geoffroy's spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi ), also known as the black-handed spider monkey , is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia. There are at least five subspecies. Some primatologists classify the black-headed spider monkey ( A. fusciceps ), found in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador as the same species as Geoffroy's spider monkey.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,800iNaturalist observations
threat ENendangered

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
11,800 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820 (206 years ago).
Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.