Blond capuchin

The blond capuchin (Sapajus flavius) is a capuchin monkey endemic to northeastern Brazil, rediscovered in 2006 after long lacking a specimen. It has almost uniformly golden-yellow body hair with a whitish cap on the front half of the head. It lives in the northeastern Atlantic Forest in Paraíba, Pernambuco and Alagoas and also in the Caatinga of Rio Grande do Norte, and it can live in groups of over 150 individuals. Its diet would otherwise consist of mostly fruit and small animals, but in fragments surrounded by farmland sugarcane has made up half of what some groups eat. Adults weigh 2 to 3 kg. The species is endangered, threatened by loss of habitat to agriculture and by poaching and the illegal pet trade.