Spider Monkeys
kingdom: Animalia
-Multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells.
-Rely on other organisms for nourishment.
-Ingest food and digest food in a internal cavity.
-They have there own means of locomotion.
Phylum: Chordata
-Bilaterraly symmetrical bodies
-At some part of the life cycle they have a pair of gill slits or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment.
-Have a notchard at some phase of there life.
Class: Mammalia
-conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the mother.
-Nourish their young with milk produced by the mothers mammary glands.
-They have a variety of specialized teeth.
-They are enthrodermic.
-They have hair and sweat glands.
-Order: Primates
-They have a very complex social behavior.
-Monkeys weigh 75 pounds.
Family: Cebidae
Genius: Ateles
These monkeys eat ripe fruit, leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, and insects, arachnids, and eggs. There fur is black, brown, or reddish. There tail can range from 635mm to 840mm.
Poem: If your walking in the jungle you can find it in the trees, flying from branch to branch with such dignity. It eats wild fruits that are fresh from the canopy, it will be very silent except when it screams.
References: Serra School.org http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/,January 10, 2001
picture from: Google.com http:www.webcom.ch/roggo/MAMMALS/s26a.html,Jan 10, 2001
