page_title: List of Costa Rican monkey species
section_title: Costa Rican monkey species
hierarchical_section_title: List of Costa Rican monkey species / Costa Rican monkey species
caption_attribution_description: Black-handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi).
context_page_description: Four species of monkey are native to the forests of Costa Rica, the Central American squirrel monkey, the Panamanian white-faced capuchin, the mantled howler and Geoffroy's spider monkey. All four species are classified scientifically as New World Monkeys. Two of the species, the Central American squirrel monkey and the white-faced capuchin, belong to the family Cebidae, the family containing the squirrel monkeys and capuchins. The other two species belong to the family Atelidae, the family containing the howler monkeys, spider monkeys, woolly monkeys and muriquis. Each of the four species can be seen in national parks within Costa Rica, where viewing them in natural surroundings is a popular tourist attraction. The only park in which all four species can be seen is Corcovado National Park, on the Osa Peninsula.
  The smallest of the Costa Rican monkey species is the Central American squirrel monkey. Adult males average 0.8 kg and adult females average 0.7 kg.
caption: Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
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