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The white-faced capuchin, which has a range from Honduras to Ecuador, [14] is the second smallest Costa Rican monkey. Adult males average 3.7 kg (8.2 lb) and adult females average 2.7 kg (6.0 lb). [9] The mantled howler, with a range from Mexico to Ecuador, [15] is the second largest monkey species in
White-faced capuchin, or white headed capuchin, can refer to either of two species of gracile capuchin monkey: [1] Cebus imitator, ... Costa Rica and Panama. [1]
The range of capuchin monkeys includes some tropical forests in Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. In Central America, where they are called white-faced monkeys ("carablanca"), they usually occupy the wet lowland forests on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.
Stephanie Fusco always wanted a pet monkey, but no one ever thought that would be possible! So when she ended up adopting two white-faced capuchins named Xander and Ohana, her entire family was ...
Barbudal hillocks are home to several groups of white-faced capuchin monkeys which, since 1990, have been the subject of the Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Monkey Project, an ongoing research project by primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA. As of January 2010 Mr. Manrique Montes Obando is the administrator of the reserve.
The Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Monkey Project is an ongoing field research project founded in 1990 by primatologist Susan E. Perry of UCLA.The project is dedicated to the study of the ecology, foraging behavior, and social behavior of the white-faced capuchin monkeys of the Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Animal Planet says, "These are some of the only tool-using wild monkeys in the world." So, the adorable interaction makes sense -- but seeing that level of care is still pretty amazing.
While the white-faced capuchin is very common in Costa Rica and Panama, the monkey has been largely extirpated from Honduras and much of Nicaragua. Many Honduran capuchins were captured and relocated to the island of Roatán, and many Nicaraguan capuchins were captured and relocated to the island of Ometepe.