How to Use spider monkey in a Sentence

spider monkey

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  • This is not the first time agents have found spider monkeys at the border.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • From the spider monkeys to the chill pool for the polar bears, Como Zoo features the creatures.
    — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 5 July 2019
  • The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, announced the birth of a spider monkey in a blog post.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Future episodes feature a koala named Crikey and spider monkey named Pepe.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Teotihuacán found the roughly 1,700-year-old skeleton of a spider monkey that was not native to the region.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Their findings suggest the animal was a female spider monkey between the ages of 5 and 8 years old at the time of its death.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Here, there is a Brachiation Station at which kids can grab on swing from limb-to-limb, like spider monkeys and primates.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Theron voices a spider monkey leading the boy on his quest to take on his mother’s sisters and evil grandfather Raiden the Moon King.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The zoo noted that Rochelle is an experienced mother and that other members of the spider monkey troop have checked in on the mother and child.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 23 Apr. 2022
  • By the next summer, another attraction was added at the park – a habitat filled with eight spider monkeys.
    — Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Capturing wild spider monkeys to trade is an age-old practice dating as far back as A.D. 200.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In the evenings, relax in a hammock and scan the treetops for howler and spider monkeys, or practice your nighttime photography skills with your friends.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • With its hands and feet bound, a spider monkey went to its grave around 300 C.E., buried alive among sumptuous grave goods in the great city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico.
    — Bybridget Alex, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In an ecosystem fit with extreme animals, like the spider monkey, what could happen if SlothBot doesn’t blend in?
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2021
  • The zoo recently added toucans, a spider monkey and the popular red pandas.
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, announced the birth of its newest black-handed spider monkey.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Now, the team has found the remains of an ancient spider monkey, a curious animal alien to the region around Teotihuacán, inside the Plaza of Columns Complex.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The El Paso Zoo plans to press charges against a Texas woman who was caught on camera trespassing into a spider monkey enclosure.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 May 2021
  • This May, the team of astronomers and ecologists will look for orangutans in Malaysia and spider monkeys in Mexico before heading to Brazil to search for river dolphins.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2018
  • In 2013, Laska and colleagues tested the abilities of humans, mice and spider monkeys to detect urine odors found in common mouse predators.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • But half a mile from camp, a peculiar howling echoed through the forest—almost, but not exactly, like that of a spider monkey, the largest simian in the jungle and an excellent source of meat.
    — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Ceratopteris richardii, a fern often used as a model organism in the lab — had genomes comparable in their vastness to the flying spider monkey tree fern.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The havoc-wreaking gang consisted of three spider monkeys and two squirrel monkeys.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • That means requests could get answered by someone in another state, a bot or a digital spider monkey.
    — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The footage, shared on Instagram on Saturday, shows the woman beneath a waterfall in the zoo’s spider monkey exhibit, feeding something to two of the primates.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 25 May 2021
  • Red kangaroos, spider monkeys and pandas are other exotic creatures housed in the zoo.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In Bolivia, spider monkey parts are used to cure snake bites, spider bites, fever, coughs, colds, shoulder pain, and sleeping problems; in India, the survey found that many people believe that macaque blood is a cure for asthma.
    — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2010
  • The goal is to ultimately improve conservation by learning where and how certain key species—like jaguars, peccaries, spider monkeys, and more—live in the forest.
    — National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Unlike virtually every other primate, spider monkeys have no thumbs, which could snag on the branches.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But unlike other narcocorridos, this one is a testament to the death of a tactical-vest-wearing spider monkey in a custom camo jacket.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 June 2022

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