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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. Comfort behaviour in animals - Wikipedia

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    Comfort behaviours can function to communicate socially during breeding season such as in the Degus, [12] and form bonds and social structure within groups. [5] It also can have implications on social outcomes of an animal. In infant monkeys it was found that contact comfort from their mothers was necessary to encourage positive social outcomes.

  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. 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 ...

  6. Category:Squirrel monkeys - Wikipedia

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  7. Cebidae - Wikipedia

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    Cebid monkeys are arboreal animals that only rarely travel on the ground. They are generally small monkeys, ranging in size up to that of the brown capuchin, with a body length of 33 to 56 cm, and a weight of 2.5 to 3.9 kilograms. They are somewhat variable in form and coloration, but all have the wide, flat, noses typical of New World monkeys.

  8. Black-striped capuchin - Wikipedia

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    The black-striped capuchin is a New World monkey and a member of the Cebidae family, which contains both capuchins and squirrel monkeys. Until the past few decades [when?], the black-striped capuchin was considered a subspecies of the tufted capuchin but has slowly become accepted as a separate species over time.

  9. Self-anointing in animals - Wikipedia

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    Several primate species self-anoint with various items such as millipedes, leaves and fruit.They sometimes drool while doing this. [3] Both capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys perform urine washing, when they deposit a small quantity of urine onto the palm of a hand and then rub it on the sole of the opposite foot.