Four long fingers on each hand help them grasp ... extremely short.) Their tree-to-tree locomotion, called brachiation, is how these swingers get around. The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, ...

A photo shows the process of coaxing the monkey, identified as a male black-capped capuchin, out of a tree. Officials try to coax the escaped monkey out of a tree in Ica. Photo from Peru’s ...