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Description
Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus)
Common Squirrel Monkey, native of South America but photographed here at MonkeyLand, South Africa. While hard to tell from these pictures, these guys are really small, when fully grown they have a ~30cm body and weigh about ~500g (female) ~750g (male).
Note its fingers, how much like human's they look.

I also have another of this monkey: [link]

My Photos from MonkeyLand (from 2 visits)
[link] White-Handed Gibbon
[This] Common Squirrel Monkey #1
[link] Common Squirrel Monkey #2
[link] Ring-tailed Lemur
[link] Tufted (or Brown) Capuchin

About MonkeyLand
MonkeyLand is a free-to-roam sancturies for monkeys near Knysna, South Africa. It cares for monkeys, apes, gibbons and lemurs that were once pets or otherwise human owned animals.
It offers a large, safe and sustainable area where they can live as freely as possible. They need to be protected from outside predators (mainly Baboons), as well as needing some assistance with food. Their food is balanced and monitored by the keepers, they are also able to feed naturally if they wish.
Some monkeys need to be transitioned before they can be freed, which MonkeyLand also does. Eventually they live in in a large swath of forest near Knysna, South Africa.

Description
Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus)
Common Squirrel Monkey, native of South America but photographed here at MonkeyLand, South Africa. While hard to tell from these pictures, these guys are really small, when fully grown they have a ~30cm body and weigh about ~500g (female) ~750g (male).
Note its fingers, how much like human's they look.

I also have another of this monkey: [link]

My Photos from MonkeyLand (from 2 visits)
[link] White-Handed Gibbon
[This] Common Squirrel Monkey #1
[link] Common Squirrel Monkey #2
[link] Ring-tailed Lemur
[link] Tufted (or Brown) Capuchin

About MonkeyLand
MonkeyLand is a free-to-roam sancturies for monkeys near Knysna, South Africa. It cares for monkeys, apes, gibbons and lemurs that were once pets or otherwise human owned animals.
It offers a large, safe and sustainable area where they can live as freely as possible. They need to be protected from outside predators (mainly Baboons), as well as needing some assistance with food. Their food is balanced and monitored by the keepers, they are also able to feed naturally if they wish.
Some monkeys need to be transitioned before they can be freed, which MonkeyLand also does. Eventually they live in in a large swath of forest near Knysna, South Africa.