#0329 · 🦊 mammals

Black capuchin

🇳🇱 Zwarte Kapucijnaap ·Sapajus nigritus

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Márcio Motta · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Peter Cook · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Jon Sullivan · CC BY 4.0
4. © Heitor Fagundes Beloch · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © antoniomarinjr · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Álvaro da Silva Júnior · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © daniesser · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Kahio Tiberio Mazon · CC0

what is it?

The black capuchin , ( Sapajus nigritus) , also known as the black-horned capuchin , is a capuchin monkey from the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil and far north-eastern Argentina. Historically, it was included as a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,201iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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).