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[[underline]] Ateles [[/underline]] ssp, Nov. 14, 1959, II,

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eloped Hdd. She also tends to go into Hdd when she is touched on the back - i.e. touched in such a way that she can hardly try to climb onto the touching hand.)

When she is prevented from climbing on to a human being, she [[underline]] always [[/underline]] (except when eating - see below) keeps her arms crossed over her chest, each hand clutching the shoulders or upper arms of the opposite side!! In other words, she "has" to feel that something is being clutched in her hands! At the same time, her feet are frequently more often grasping each other; and her tail is [[underline]] always [[/underline]] tightly wound around her body/or limbs. In other words [[underline]] all [[/underline]] her grasping "surfaces" have" to be in contact with something firm(probably something moderately hairy as well) before she can be even moderately content. But she certainly prefers to be grasping me rather than herself and come to me if I come close to her.

I tried some experiments putting her in a tree yesterday. When I picked her up, by the back, she immediately went into a little ball, as usual, grasping herself in all directions. Then it was very difficult to get her to grasp a branch of a tree. She wanted to continue to grasp herself, and fell off the branches several times simply because she made absolutely no effort to hold on. Finally, after repeated experiments, she started to grasp branches with her hind feet, but it was only much later still, after many more experiments, that she started to use her hands and tail a little!!

Unlike other Spider Monkeys I have had, this little animal  doesn't use its hands at all to grasp or paw through food. If it has been grasping itself before starting to feed, it will uncurl sufficiently to put its hands on

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