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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. List of platyrrhines - Wikipedia

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    Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) Platyrrhini is a parvorder of primates. Members of this parvorder are called platyrrhines, or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is one of three clades that form the suborder Haplorrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are ...

  5. Portal:Primates/Selected species - Wikipedia

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    The Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) is a squirrel monkey species from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It is a small monkey with an orange back and a distinctive white and black facial mask. It has an omnivorous diet, eating fruits, other plant materials, invertebrates and some small vertebrates.

  6. 9 Monkeys Died in 2 Days at a Zoo, Officials Revealed What ...

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    Three of the monkeys that died at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens are a critically endangered species. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Entertainment. Fitness ...

  7. 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.

  8. Guianan squirrel monkey - Wikipedia

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    The Guianan squirrel monkey's diet includes insects, seeds, fruit, young leaves, flowers, gum, shoots, nectar, spiders, lizards and bird eggs. [5] [6] On at least one occasion one was seen eating a bat, although it does not appear to hunt bats as often as the related Central American squirrel monkey. [5]

  9. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    Margays are small, wild cats that live in the evergreen and deciduous forests of Central and South America. They live primarily in trees and use their long, heavy tails for balance.