Northern muriqui

The northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) is one of two species of muriqui, also known as woolly spider monkeys because they combine the woollen pelt of woolly monkeys with the long prehensile tail of spider monkeys. Muriquis are the largest extant New World monkeys, reaching about 1.3 metres in length and weighing up to 7 to 10 kg. The northern muriqui is endemic to the Atlantic Forest region of the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia, and it is critically endangered, with fewer than 1,000 mature individuals estimated in the wild. It is frugivorous and folivorous but also relies on seeds, flowers, nectar, bark, twigs and soil, and it travels through the canopy by brachiation. It is threatened by hunting and by the destruction and fragmentation of its habitat.