Yellow roasted capuchin

Monkeys and lemurs

South American animals

The yellow-breasted capuchin communicates with a variety of sounds and is known to be very curious and exploratory. In the wild, yellow-breasted capuchins live in groups of 10-30 individuals and there are often more males than females in the group. They spend most of their time up in the trees looking for food. One fascinating behaviour you can see in this monkey is that they can open nuts by banging them against each other or against a tree or with the help of stones. This type of behaviour is learned by the monkeys from other group members. Yellow-breasted capuchins are critically endangered, mainly due to deforestation but also to hunting. Over the last 50 years, the species has declined by about 80 %. Today, they live mainly in national parks and other protected areas. Unfortunately, the areas have become isolated from each other and the population is still declining in the wild. The park zoo participates in the European breeding programme, EEP, for the conservation of the species.

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