FEEDING

The spidermonkey feeds principally on wild, pulpy and mature fruits, inside which ones there are the seeds of more than half of the species of trees that shape the forest. Every 2 hours, between 7 of the morning and 7 p. m., them consumes an average of 30 fruits per minute and expels without digesting approximately 60 thousand daily seeds.

THE spidermonkey sophisticated machine is like some processor of food, since it swallows the fruit entire they extract the nutriment to him and after using the seed as a grinding agent of the pulp so that this one is more digestible expel it across you excrete.

The seeds go out to the exterior world conditioned to germinate, since the stomach acids are in charge of softening its exterior layer, which sometimes is very hard. Also, on having happened for the large intestine, they are impregnated with fecal matter, what it keeps removed to the insects that could commit an outrage against the seed for germinating.

To complement its diet after to be no minerals excess in the food in its natural habitat as the calcium potassium phosphorus magnesium  iodize zinc receive boron and selenium between others the spidermonkey consumes flowers and tender sheets and nests of ants and termites with suppressed proteins high place and to be done of lipids like energy source they lay hands on some species of the family of the Lauraceae like for example the avocado which content of vegetable fat they store like reservation substance.