Essay On Capuchins

With a variety of new world monkeys, the capuchin monkeys have their own characteristics that differentiate them from others. The capuchins are apart of the superfamily of Ceboidea and from there branch out into the family Cebidae. They are mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions in Central and South America(). In these tropical areas the habitats that capuchins can be found in range from deep rainforest to dry forest with a height elevation from sea level to 2700 meters high(). Capuchin are omnivorous and their diet consist mainly of fruits, insects, nuts, and seed. In size,animals in the Cebidae family are normally small, like the capuchins who can have a mass from 1.1 to 3.3 kg and a length of 32 to 56 cm(). Normally the male capuchin monkeys are bigger than the females and also have distinct differences in the proportions of the head compared to the body. However in the Cebidae family, the capuchin monkeys are the only ones with a grasping tail which is mainly used to help keep balance and hardly ever use it to grab object(). They are indeed arboreal and do arm swing on trees. Capuchins also have opposable thumbs. The color of their fur can range from white to brown to black. Capuchins have
One difference between wild and captive capuchins is that captive capuchins don’t have to worry about mosquitoes or catching any disease from them. This is because the environment that captive capuchins live in is protected and not dangerous because there are zookeepers to keep everything safe while in the wild the capuchins can’t rely on any person. In the wild, the capuchins live in a dangerous environment in which they must adapt and learn new strategies to survive. Another difference that captive and wild capuchins have is there social group. In a captive environment the capuchin monkeys can't form their own social