<div class="tree_txt_unlinked"><p>Spider
monkeys range geographically from the Yucatan peninsula through
Amazonia. They live in large multi-male multi-female groups that often
break down into smaller groups for foraging. Spider monkeys are highly
suspensory arborealists (resembling gibbons in some respects) and use
their tail as a fifth limb for feeding and traveling through the upper
levels of main rain forest canopy. They lack an external thumb.</p>
<p><strong>Citations</strong>: Fleagle 1999</p>
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