Table of Contents TLDR: the key characteristics The main characteristics of a spider monkey are a slender body, very long arms and legs, a prehensile tail that works like a…
Most lists of Senegal’s wildlife are travel roundups with a conservation status wedged into a sidebar. This isn’t that. Every animal here is losing ground, and almost all of them…
Figs make up roughly 60% of what an Eastern hoolock gibbon eats when fruit is available, and fruit overall accounts for around 65% of feeding time across the year. That’s…
Table of Contents TLDR Northern muriquis are leaf specialists first, fruit opportunists second. Across a year of feeding records at Fazenda Montes Claros, leaves made up 51% of their diet,…
TLDR Nilgiri langurs are leaf-eating specialists. Young leaves make up almost half their diet (around 44%), with the rest split between seeds, fruit, flowers, bark, and — oddly — soil….
TLDR Bonobos are frugivorous omnivores. Roughly 57% of their diet is fruit, another 30% or so is leaves, stems, and other plant matter (THV — terrestrial herbaceous vegetation), and meat…
Table of Contents TLDR: What Diana Monkeys Eat Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) are fruit-first foragers who fill in the gaps with whatever the forest canopy is offering that week. The…
TLDR Red-fronted lemurs eat fruit, leaves, flowers, bark, and the occasional insect or fungus — but which of those dominates depends entirely on where in Madagascar the troop lives. In…
Pygmy marmosets eat tree gum. Not as a snack — as the main event. The world’s smallest monkey spends most of its feeding time gouging holes in bark and lapping…