spider monkeys
- plural of spider monkey.
Example Sentences
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To complete the general "cheerfulness," the tree-tops were full of little spider-monkeys whispering mournfully throughout the dark and showery night.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
The coaitas are called by some French zoölogists spider-monkeys, on account of the length and slenderness of their body and limbs.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
Even in Guatemala and Mexico we have howling and spider-monkeys, coati-mundis, tapirs, and armadillos; while chatterers, manakins, ant-thrushes, and other peculiarly Neotropical groups of birds are abundant.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
In the spider-monkeys, the tail, as a prehensile organ, reaches its highest degree of perfection, and they may therefore be considered as the extreme development of the American type of apes.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
After walking about a kilometre he heard ahead a kind of howling noise, which he thought was made by spider-monkeys.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
