Brown-headed spider monkey
The brown-headed spider monkey, is a critically endangered subspecies of the black-headed spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in northwestern Ecuador.
Its type locality is at 1500 m in the Hacienda Chinipamba, Imbabura Province in North-West Ecuador. It inhabits areas west of the Andes Mountains. Some authorities, such as Froelich, Collins and Dubach and Nieves, do not recognize the black-headed spider monkey as a distinct species and so treat the brown-headed spider monkey as a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey.
The brown-headed spider monkey lives in tropical and subtropical humid forests that are between above sea level. It lives in population densities of 1.2 monkeys per square kilometer. It has a black or brown body and a brown head, while the Colombian spider monkey is entirely black with some white on its chin.
The brown-headed spider monkey is critically endangered as a result of habitat loss, due to deforestation, and hunting.
