Photo by Charlesjsharp (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIdeal Food for the Tufted Capuchin<\/h2>\n
When they aren’t busy peeing on themselves, this New World Monkey will spend much of their time hanging out in the trees looking for scrumptious snacks such as fruits, seeds, vegetation, insects as well as \u00a0birds, reptiles and small mammals. For some reason, I have a tough time picturing a cute little Capuchin monkey chewing on a helpless Mouse Opossum\u00a0but apparently it happens. During times of food shortage the alpha male of the troop will\u00a0always<\/span> eat first, which seems to suggest that during other times when the food supply is vast the Monkey’s are allowed to eat as they please. Incidentally, when a Tufted Capuchin actually catches their prey (i.e. birds, reptiles, etc) they don’t usually share with the rest of the group…and who can blame them since they know the alpha male will simply take their hard earned meal. Sometimes you just have to look out for numero uno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did You Know? The Tufted Capuchin is classed as a New World Monkey\u00a0(I wonder if the New World and Old World Monkey’s can’t stand each other), which can be found in South America Much like other Monkey’s, todays featured animal is a social creature that likes to hang out in gangs (or troops if you want to be boring and technical) of 8 to 15 individuals While it is unknown how long the Tufted Capuchin typically survives for in the wild, they have been known to live for roughly 45 years in captivity An Odd Way To Introduce Yourself I <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[3475,2246,1617,4025,333,3474,3473],"yoast_head":"\n
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