mexican spider monkey yucatan subspecies xcaret park

mexican spider monkey xcaret park

First time l have heard of a Mexican spider monkey, sub species ?

zooman said:

First time l have heard of a Mexican spider monkey, sub species ?

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Yup, subspecies of the Geoffroy's spider monkey.

On zootierliste ateles geoffreyi is listed as the mexican spider monkey. This species is very common in mexican zoos, but only 2 zoos in europe have them according to zootierliste. Now to be more exact this is ateles geoffreyi yucatensis, which according to tierliste is only found in 1 european animal collection.

Wait, so this is not an A. g. vellerosus?

This is the yucatan subspecies. Very few mexican zoos give the subspecies of their spider monkeys, which are always listed as ateles geoffreyi. I will change the picture title since this may be one of the few pictures of this subspecies on zoochat.