Scientific name:
Ateles

Natural spread:
means, South America

this middle, and South American clamp-monkeys of the type Ateles gain the biggest gripping-radius of all clamp-tail-monkeys up to 92 cm of tail-length as well.

With a length up to 59 cm works such shapes especially strange because of this of overlong seeming gripping-tail.

Way of life Clamp-monkeys are almost only in the crowns of the trees, in which they move easily thanks to its master-like Schwing-Hangeltechnik. They fly, also over jungle-clearings of 10 meters play easily away, land unerringly in the opposite branches and hang kopfunter at the next moment, dangling at the gripping-tail, and the situation overlooks, at a high branch. Also on thick branches, they accomplish acrobatic master-performances by winding all five extremities verknäuelt about the body in true "yogi-manner" so to speak and letting the head look out from this tangle. its swings and Hangeltechnik is the gibbons as perfect as this, only the gripping-tail of all does even more effectively, more certainly, fashionable and seemingly effortless. As with the wool-monkey, so the thumbs are strongly receded also with the clamp-monkey or are missing completely.

More than half of the day, the clamp-monkeys use for the rest. They use much time during its active phase for the eating. Especially gladly, they eat ripe fruits, furthermore leaves, buds, but also bark.

Endangering Because of from Bejagung and habitat-destruction goes back the continuances of the clamp-monkeys permanently.