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Specialized for the reach: Fruit picking and positional behavior favor a reach over a grasp phenotype for Geoffroy’s spider monkey ( <i>Ateles geoffroyi</i> )

2025-05-20

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The Geoffroy’s spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi ) has distinctive features, including a vestigial external thumb, long fingers and forelimbs, and a prehensile tail. To better understand how its derived morphology is used during natural foraging, we filmed wild spider monkeys well habituated to human observers in Sector Santa Rosa (SSR), Área de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. We analyzed frame...

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10.1101/2025.05.15.654288
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