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  2. Squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    Squirrel monkey in Yacuma Park, Bolivia. Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. Saimiri is the only genus in the subfamily Saimiriinae.The name of the genus is of Tupi origin (sai-mirím or çai-mbirín, with sai meaning 'monkey' and mirím meaning 'small') [3] and was also used as an English name by early researchers.

  3. Black-capped squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    The black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) is a species of New-World monkey native to the upper Amazon basin in Bolivia, western Brazil and eastern Peru. [3] [4] They weigh between 365 and 1,135 g (13 and 40 oz) and measure, from the head to the base of the tail, between 225 and 370 mm (9 and 15 in). [5]

  4. Central American squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    The Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii), also known as the red-backed squirrel monkey, is a squirrel monkey species from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It is restricted to the northwestern tip of Panama near the border with Costa Rica, and the central and southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, primarily in Manuel ...

  5. Black squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    The black squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii), also known as the blackish squirrel monkey or black-headed squirrel monkey, is a small New World primate, endemic to the central Amazon in Brazil. [2] It largely resembles the female of the far more common Bolivian squirrel monkey , though the latter lacks the black central back.

  6. Zoo reveals cause of mysterious monkey deaths as toll rises to 11

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    A De Brazza’s monkey, three common squirrel monkeys and as many endangered cotton-top tamarins, and four white-faced saki monkeys have died at the zoo so far.

  7. Black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    The black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey was assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as Endangered. This was consistent with prior assessments. It is listed as endangered to a small and fragmented range amounting to only about 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 sq mi), and continuing habitat loss. [2]

  8. Common squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    Common squirrel monkey is the traditional common name for several small squirrel monkey species native to the tropical areas of South America.The term common squirrel monkey had been used as the common name for Saimiri sciureus before genetic research by Jessica Lynch Alfaro and others indicated S. scuireus covered at least three and possibly four species: the Guianan squirrel monkey (S ...

  9. Is Big Pharma’s favorite lab monkey endangered? - AOL

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    A petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that argues for listing long-tailed macaques as “endangered” or “threatened” under the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act was spearheaded by ...