How to Use spider monkey in a Sentence

spider monkey

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  • The seller did not share the location or area from which the spider monkeys were retreived from.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Skelton is asking for an exception to any new city rules for her pet, Oakley the spider monkey.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Who wrote Robert Pattinson's 'spider monkey' line?
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Given that the spider monkey infants are too young to be released back to the wild without a mother to feed and protect them from natural predators, they’re brought to the Texas zoo for care.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Toni Skelton may get to keep her pet spider monkey in her Prairie Village home, but the permission to do so comes with a new set of rules that keeps the pet and its owners on a tighter leash.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Given that spider monkeys only give birth every two to three years, their population is drastically declining every season because of these poachers and sellers.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The species of spider monkey is native to southern Mexico along with northern Central America and is extremely social.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
  • About 100 individual baby spider monkeys have been seized by border authorities in the last two years, Fischer said.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Poaching fears Alongside the challenges of caring for spider monkeys in captivity, animal advocates like Fischer are concerned about ways the animals get to people’s homes in the first place.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • However, with over 1,600 other animals in the zoo to care for, the five veterinarians on staff are far understaffed to also continue to take in stray spider monkeys, since the babies require nearly 24-hour care.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Cydnee Bence, counsel for the PETA Foundation, told The Star that at least one person submitted a complaint online about seeing a spider monkey out in public in Prairie Village, which prompted the nonprofit to take action.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • According to her paperwork, Oakley is a Black-handed spider monkey, a subspecies of the Mexican spider monkey, commonly found in the tropical rainforests of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, according to Fischer.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • On Monday, the Prairie Village City Council voted to adopt a conditional license for Oakley Reign — a spider monkey that’s recently been ushered into the spotlight as the northeast Johnson County city considered changing its definition of dangerous wild animals to include all monkeys.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026

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