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How has the spider monkey adapted to survive in tropical forest? - Coggle…

- - - - Averaging around 20 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees celsius
      - Humidity averaging 77% to 88% the entire year
- - - - Jungles are dense and offer limited sight-lines, so jungle monkeys have adapted to locate each other by sound. Howler monkeys yell loudly enough to hear each other up to 5 kilometers away, and chimpanzees use their large, flat feet and hands to drum on trees, identifying their whereabouts to other chimpanzees. Spider monkeys also have loud voices that carry particularly well through jungle canopies, where they live. They use different calls, whoops and barks to greet each other, locate each other and frighten predators.
      - Spider monkeys also have loud voices that carry particularly well through jungle canopies, where they live. They use different calls, whoops and barks to greet each other, locate each other and frighten predators.
    - - They also have prehensile tails, capable of holding onto branches like an extra hand. Spider monkeys use their tails to cling to trees while they forage for food with both their hands.
      - The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, which means “capable of grasping.” It is generally longer than the animal’s body and acts as a fifth limb—an adaptation to life in the tree canopy. It can support a spider monkey’s full body weight and allows them to hang onto branches, freeing their hands so they can climb, forage, and eat.
      - They do use their prehensile tail as an additional limb to hold, grip, and dangle from the branches. They do also perform hugging and tail holding like social behavior using their tails.
    - - just like the other New World Monkeys, Spider Monkeys too have a prehensile tail that they use as their fifth limb to grasp or hold on to anything, to grab and dangle from a branch, or as an aid for climbing.
      - Because of the range and strength of their arms and legs, some species of jungle monkey, such as the spider monkey and the gibbon, do not have to descend to the forest floor to travel at all. This helps them conserve energy, because their food is up in the canopy; climbing down to the ground to move to a new foraging area would be a waste of strength
    - - Black spider monkeys have evolved without thumbs, because thumbs were an inconvenience instead of a help in gripping branches
      - The way they groom each other (mother and offspring) is very different from other monkeys because of the lack of a developed thumb. The lack of a completely developed thumb is because of their environmental adaptation. This is caused by the way they travel from tree to tree in their arboreal surroundings. The thumb is not really needed causing them to have a shrunken thumb. Spider monkeys also have a patch of skin at the end of their prehensile tails with a pattern of lines. It resembles a fingerprint which allows them to have a strong grip. These adaptations help the spider monkey have success in their environment because with these features they are able to get more food and escape from predators.
  - - - Black spider monkeys travel in large groups when food is abundant and break into small groups when food is scarce.
        
        Yes, Spider Monkeys live in social groups that consist of multiple males and multiple females (up to two- or three-dozen monkeys), where the females show a more active leading role than the males.
        
        They sleep, communicate, mate, and lead their day-to-day life in small groups where takes care of the young onesm and male protect the territorial boundaries.
        
        Their social system is one of the most important behavioral adaptations that aid to survive in a predator full region of their habitat.
        
        Their social system is an evolutionary advantage for their increased protection against predators, access to potential mates and continuation of generation, increased foraging efficiency, and easy access to social information for better communication
        
        Spider monkeys are extremely social animals. In fact, if one is kept alone in captivity, it can easily die of loneliness unless its owner gives it a great deal of attention. In the wild, these monkeys tend to congregate in groups of 40–50, although they break up into smaller groups during the course of the day. Each large group has its own territory, and members of the group patrol it daily on specific paths. Spider monkeys rarely enter neighboring territories. Whenever spider monkey territories over-lap, the monkeys somehow readjust them over time.
        
        The smaller group of spider monkeys can be composed of various troupe members, depending on the specifics of the day. Small groups can be composed of a single male with his offspring and mates, a female and her young, or several females and their young, or even several males temporarily associating with each other. When in the forest, the small groups tend to stay within calling distance of each other. When danger is at hand, the large group can be reassembled quickly through a series of bark-like calls by various members of the small groups.
    - - Yes, they follow a strictly arboreal lifestyle and spend almost their whole life in the upper canopy of the trees, and that they seldom spend their energy to come down to the ground.They follow a 80% vegetative diet and so feed on fruits, leaves, bark, flowers, etc., and all of these are available up in the canopy of the trees in excessive stock, and so they have adapted themselves to a totally arboreal (tree-living) lifestyle.During the daytime, they spend their time foraging and doing other day-to-day activities by climbing and swinging through the high canopy of the trees, and seldom come down to the earth.So, their adaptation to having an arboreal lifestyle aids them to move through a more cluttered habitat, and also safeguards them from a lot of predators that may be waiting for a kill.