The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, which means “capable of grasping.” It is generally longer than the animal’s body and acts as a fifth limb—an adaptation to life in the tree canopy.

An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the ... Woolly monkeys spend most of their time high in the tree canopy. On the rare occasions when they descend to the ground ...

Only a small number of the world’s animals, including lemurs ... cleared and they dispersed into the tree canopy to hunt, a golden-mantled tamarin monkey came ambling down to their feeding ...

A remarkable scene unfolded as a capuchin monkey was observed carrying a small puppy, navigating the upper reaches of a dense tree line. The monkey's agility was on full display as ...

The third season of The White Lotus opens with a shot of a monkey in a tree, and that's not the only time the animal makes an appearance in the premiere (or the rest of the season, for that matter).

A fearless monkey braves a flimsy branch in a daring gamble for one juicy apple. Perched high in the mountains of China's Chongqing, the tree clings ...

Photos show the rescued animal. Photo from Peru’s National ... Officials try to coax the escaped monkey out of a tree in Ica. Photo from Peru’s National Forestry and Wildlife Service Rescuers ...

This makes tree life a good fit ... lot more predators that could prey on this small monkey especially crocodiles and alligators and other animals that frequent swamps. They have been recorded ...