Geoffroy's spider monkey, black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) Description
English: Female Panama spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi panamensis, sometimes considered a synonym for Ateles geoffroyi ornatus) at the Caña Blanca wildlife sanctuary on the Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. This individual had been illegally kept as a pet before being confiscated and sent to the sanctuary, and had spent her whole life on a short leash; because of this, she would panic whenever she was let off the leash and had to be kept on a 40-foot tether.
Date 6 July 2008
Source Own work
Author Steven G. Johnson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stevenj
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panama_spider_monkey,_Costa_Rica.JPG
Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), also known as the black-handed spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia. There are at least five subspecies. Some primatologists classify the black-headed spider monkey (A. fusciceps), found in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador as the same species as Geoffroy's spider monkey. Order: Primates, Family: Atelidae.
Synonyms:
Ateles frontatus (Gray, 1842)
Ateles melanochir (Desmarest, 1820)
Ateles trianguligera (Weinland, 1862)