Keeping Capuchins and Spider monkeys together?

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Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any zoos that currently, or have in the past successfully kept Capuchins and Spider monkeys together (for a uni design project)

I have tried to research this myself but any evidence I've found has either been old (so I don't know if it was a tried and failed attempt) or unclear whether the monkeys are kept together or just in the same building but separate enclosures.

Also tried to find evidence on youtube but all I get is Americans keeping Spider monkeys and Capuchins as pets rather than zoo or natural environments :(

TIA xxx
 
The Brookfield zoo has kept brown capuchins with 2 spider monkey species together in the past. Now the capuchins left because they did not get along with the giant anteater also in the exhibit.
 
Parc las Leyendas in Lima, Peru keeps capuchins, spider monkeys and coati's on a big island. It was amongst my favorite exhibits in the zoo, very lively.
 
pachyderm pro said:
The Brookfield zoo has kept brown capuchins with 2 spider monkey species together in the past. Now the capuchins left because they did not get along with the giant anteater also in the exhibit.
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I'm only aware of Geoffroy's spider monkeys in this mix; what was the other species? It's worth noting that although the arrangement was generally successful, a male spider monkey was highly aggressive to two male capuchins and they had to be rotated.
 
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I'm only aware of Geoffroy's spider monkeys in this mix; what was the other species? It's worth noting that although the arrangement was generally successful, a male spider monkey was highly aggressive to two male capuchins and they had to be rotated.
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The other species was a elderly Red faced spider monkey who I think was the only one in the U.S. That is maybe why the capuchins left the zoo. I would love to see them return.
 
Wellington Zoo in New Zealand keeps both on the same island exhibit. The capuchins are Cebus apella, the spiders are mostly geoffroyi but there are a couple of elderly individuals of other species with them too (the zoo's original spider monkey group was of several species, so the old ones are the non-breeding remnants).
 
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