Pithecia pithecia (Linnaeus)

VOSS, ROBERT S., LUNDE, DARRIN P. & SIMMONS, NANCY B., 2001, The Mammals Of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna Part 2. Nonvolant Species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (263), pp. 1-236 : 69

Pithecia pithecia (Linnaeus)

Although saki monkeys may once have been common at Paracou, P. Petronelli (personal commun., 1993) recalled only one sighting of this species prior to our inventory: a pair that he observed on 31 January 1991. Subsequently, we recorded three observations of Pithecia pithecia in our fieldnotes: (1) DPL saw a solitary individual on 3 July 1991; (2) RSV saw what might have been the same animal in the subcanopy of well­drained primary forest at 07:15 hours on 4 July 1991; and (3) Roland W. Kays saw two individuals leaping from tree to tree as he was walking along a dirt road at 16:30 hours on 6 August 1993. Silent and retiring by disposition, sakis may still linger in remote and seldom­visited parts of our study area, but their numbers have certainly been much reduced by hunting.