AP BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

ENERGY FLOW AND THE FOOD CHAIN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Spider monkeys eat mostly ____
A
spiders
B
fruit
C
insects
D
water
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This animal’s diet consists mostly of fruits, plus leaves, nuts, seeds, and sometimes arachnids and insects. Spider monkeys are important seed dispersers for their rainforest homes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The diet of these monkeys consists mainly of fruit, but they will occasionally eat leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, insects, and arachnids.

Detailed explanation-3: -What wild monkeys eat: Frugivore and omnivore species: Bananas, mangoes, frleshy fruits like berries, pomes, and drupes, and other fruit. Frugivore and omnivore species: Grass, leaves, flowers, buds, seeds, gum, nectar.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some species of spider monkey living in the Amazon rainforest actively choose to eat fruit infested with larval insects, as a way of introducing more protein into their diet.

Detailed explanation-5: -Five a day Small monkeys such as marmosets and tamarins eat more insects and less fruit. But as body size increases so does the preference for juicier foods. Species like Saki monkeys can eat between 45 and 50 species of fruit every day, often consuming their “five a day” in a hour of foraging.

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