The brown spider monkey or variegated spider monkey Ateles hybridus is a critically endangered species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from forests in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.
Its taxonomic history has been confusing, and in the past it has been treated as a subspecies of either the Geoffroy`s spider monkey or the white-fronted spider monkey. Like all spider monkeys, it has very long, spindly limbs and a lengthy prehensile tail which can almost be called a fifth limb. The brown spider monkey has a whitish belly and patch on the forehead, and ââ¬â highly unusual among spider monkeys ââ¬â the eyes are sometimes pale blue.
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