- CHARACTERISTICS
- In length they measure from head to body 32 to 48 cm. The tail measures 34 to 48 cm. Their weight oscillates between 1.4 and 3.4 Kg.
They have crests, in other words, horns of hair over the eyes or tufts of hair on either side and along the whole top part of the head.
The principal characteristic of this group is that they have white marks on the face, neck and chest and black on the remainder of their bodies.
- DIET
- They feed on fruits, seeds, nectar, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, bird eggs and small mammals, including bats.
- REPRODUCTION
- Normally they have just one offspring for each birth. If the baby survives, they mate every two years. The gestation period is from 149 to 158 days. The young fend for themselves after a year or year and a half. Normally, the females do not reproduce until the age of seven, although they are considered adults from the age of four and a half.
- CURIOSITIES
- Some individuals have been seen trying to open seeds by bashing them against a hard surface, such as the bark on a bamboo joint. Others bash the seed against another seed from the same plant.
The dominant males do not pair up with their female offspring
|
- NAME
- Capuchine Monkey
- HABITAT
- Northern and central South America
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Cebus apella
- SPICE
- Mammals
- DIET
- Omnivorous
|
|
| Tags: 
