Ateles paniscus (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 : 68

Ateles paniscus (Linnaeus)

Spider monkeys, always vulnerable to local extirpation by hunters because of their loud vocalizations, large size, highly prized meat, and low reproductive rate, have been scarce at Paracou for the last decade or more. P. Petronelli (personal commun., 1993) guessed that he had seen solitary individuals, never groups, on only five or six occasions since the early 1980s. We recorded only a single encounter with this species, when DPL saw a solitary individual in the canopy of well­drained primary forest near a fruiting fig tree on 2 July 1991; no noncaptive spider monkeys were seen or heard by us in later years.