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Black-handed Spider Monkey or Geoffroy's Spider Monkey

Ateles geoffroyi

Photo by pamsai
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Small brown monkey with white eyebrows, Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), also known as black-handed spider monkey.

Habitat:

Melbourne Zoo

Notes:

A series of photographs taken at the Melbourne Zoo during a photography tutorial! I was quite impressed with the zoo. They had put a lot of effort into providing the animals with quite natural settings with a lot of trees and greenery and space.

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Comments (2)

Yes Annahaynes05, exceptionally cute!

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PublishedOctober 23, 2014

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