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Like most New World monkeys, they are diurnal and arboreal. They are good climbers and spend the majority of their life in the trees. They live in groups ranging in number from small groups (such as with the saki monkeys) to as many as 50 animals. They communicate with a set of sounds which typically includes high cries and a nearly bird-like ...
Translation (partly): "White-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus Erxl. 1/6 natural size. (zu page 659.)" Size: 3.6 x 4.1 in 2 (9.2 x 10.3 cm 2) Originator: Gustav Mützel (1839–1893). Source: Brehms Tierleben, Small Edition 1927. White-faced capuchin, or white headed capuchin, can refer to either of two species of gracile capuchin monkey: [1]
The capuchin monkey feeds on a vast range of food types, and is more varied than other monkeys in the family Cebidae. They are omnivores, and consume a variety of plant parts such as leaves, flower and fruit, seeds, pith, woody tissue, sugarcane, bulb, and exudates, as well as arthropods, molluscs, a variety of vertebrates, and even primates. [15]
White-fronted capuchin can refer to any of a number of species of gracile capuchin monkey which used to be considered as the single species Cebus albifrons.White-fronted capuchins are found in seven different countries in South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The most recent classification of New World monkeys again splits the callitrichids off, leaving only the capuchins and squirrel monkeys in this family. [3] White-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons) Subfamily Cebinae (capuchin monkeys) Genus Cebus (gracile capuchin monkeys) Colombian white-faced capuchin or Colombian white-headed capuchin, Cebus ...
The Panamanian white-faced capuchin's intelligence and ability to use tools allows them to be trained to assist paraplegics. [59] Other species of capuchin monkeys are also trained in this manner. [60] Panamanian white-faced capuchins can also be trained for roles on television and movies, such as Marcel on the television series Friends. [61]
There are 54 currently recognized extant species of pitheciid monkey, grouped into two subfamilies and six genera. [1] [3] Eleven extinct genera known from the fossil record are placed in the family, extending the age of the family to the Miocene. [4] [5] Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris Subfamily Callicebinae, titis Genus Plecturocebus
[10] [14] Both the Humboldt's squirrel monkey and the Ecuadorian squirrel monkey live within the range of Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin. [15] Predators include the black-and-white hawk-eagle, the ornate hawk-eagle, the tayra and the harpy eagle. [9] Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin has a maximum lifespan of about 44 years.