Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Did you know that spider monkeys love hibiscus flowers and food-stuffed pinecones?
Follow along as primate keeper Grace creates a nutritious and enriching meal for the black-handed spider monkey troop which is made up of five adult females and their three offspring.
Grace explains what she finds so fascinating about this species and how we’re helping to conserve their cousins the brown spider monkey, in Venezuela, with the Spider Monkey Conservation Project.
Your Zoo visits help this vital work – so come along and visit the troop this weekend!
Did you know that spider monkeys love hibiscus flowers and food-stuffed pinecones?
Follow along as primate keeper Grace creates a nutritious and enriching meal for the black-handed spider monkey troop which is made up of five adult females and their three offspring.
Grace explains what she finds so fascinating about this species and how we’re helping to conserve their cousins the brown spider monkey, in Venezuela, with the Spider Monkey Conservation Project.
Your Zoo visits help this vital work – so come along and visit the troop this weekend!
