NOUN
- arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail
How To Use spider monkey In A Sentence
- However, some primates such as apes, spider monkeys, and lorises have morphological and behavioral specializations that may enhance efficiency during vertical climbing.
- I saw nothing till a thing slightly larger than a spider monkey, built along similar lines but hairless and red, with batlike wings instead of arms and with a spadelike point at the end of its tail, crashed and flopped around, squealing. Dread Brass Shadows
- We saw squirrel monkeys, capuchins, spider monkeys, peccaries, kinkajous, coatis, howler monkeys, tayras - a large mustelid that Martyn thought was a tree otter - pacas, night monkeys, giant anteaters and a tapir.
- An old, Black man, a young spotted giraffe, and even a horny spider monkey on the loose in the palm tree fronds canopying Hollywood. Archive 2008-06-01
- While the plants in the center help most animals in the graph, they have a special relation to the tree-dwelling mammals in the set: spider monkeys, howler monkeys, and coatis.
- I got a call around 1am – Spider Monkey, realizing I absquatulated, calling me LAME! El Vez, Xmas Eve, and shit
- With limbs and tails splayed out in the canopy, the monkeys often look as though they have five limbs - thus the name spider monkey. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Tapirs, capibara, and spider monkeys would just stop and look at us. Times, Sunday Times
- My field work has involved observations of the dietary behavior of various species of howler monkeys, spider monkeys, capuchins and tamarins as well as woolly spider monkeys.
- The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
