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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Animals

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NAME CLASS DESCRIPTION (summary)
Mangabey, Golden-bellied
(Cercocebus galeritus chrysogaster)
Mammalia

These are medium-sized monkeys, restricted to forests and closely related to the baboons. Head and body length ranges from 17 to 33 inches. Males weigh ...

Marmoset, Pygmy
(Callithrix pygmaea pygmaea)
Mammalia This is the smallest New World primate. The body length is 7 to 7½ inches, tail length 7½ inches, and weight 4½ to 7 ounces. ...
Monkey, Allen's Swamp
(Cercopithecus nigroviridis)
Mammalia Head and body length range from 17.7 to 18 inches. Tail length is about 19.5 inches. Weight ranges from 7.7 lbs to 13 lbs, with ...
Monkey, Black Howler
(Alouatta caraya)
Mammalia Male and female black howler monkeys are colored quite differently. Mature males are black, while the young and females are blond. (This difference between male ...
Monkey, Colobus
(Colobus guereza kikuyensis)
Mammalia Head/body length is 20-28 in., tail length is 24-40 in., and weight is 8-20 lbs., though large males may reach 25 lbs. The legs are ...
Monkey, Common Squirrel
(Saimiri sciureus)
Mammalia Head and body length 10.4-14.4 in.; tail length 14-17 in.; weight 2.5-3.7 lb. The tail is not prehensile.These diurnal monkeys are arboreal and only occasionally ...
Monkey, Francois' Langur
(Presbytis francoisi)
Mammalia These monkeys are part of the leaf-eating group of cercopithicines. They have a large stomach in which fibrous leaves can ferment and eventually be digested. ...
Monkey, Goeldi's
(Callimico goeldii)
Mammalia Squirrel-like and marmoset-sized, the rare Goeldis monkey seems to occupy an anatomically intermediate place between the Callitrichidae and the Cebidae. The Goeldis monkey is about ...
Monkey, Robust Black Spider
(Ateles fusciceps robustus)
Mammalia Males and females are about the same size and weigh 17-19 lbs. The tail is prehensile, long, and extremely flexible. The naked skin on the ...