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Cebidae

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Cebidae

Largest family of South American monkeys. The Cebidae is divided into five subfamilies represented by titis, squirrel monkeys, sakis, howlers, capuchins, and spider monkeys. They are all tree-living and are found in the rainforest where they feed on vegetable matter and small animals.



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Articles cover the full range of manifestations of reproduction and aging in marmosets, tamarins, cebidae, rhesus macaques, Asian colobines, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, and the collection concludes with a comparison of primate reproductive aging from lemurs to humans.
Especially as capuchin monkeys which belong to the family of Cebidae look, as their name implies, like little (Capuchin) friars.
Species that are active during daytime and arboreal or arboreal/terrestrial species were found to be more frequently infected than others primates of the Cebidae family (howlers, sakis, and squirrel monkeys); two-toed sloths had the highest prevalence.
 
 
 
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