How many thumbs does a spider monkey have?

Molly's Story 
An interesting question:  Monkeyshines readers responded with answers ranging from zero to five! 


Here is Jungle Friends' Molly, showing off her elegant hands.  Spider Monkeys have four slim, elongated fingers and a vestigial thumb on each hand; they can boast of opposable big toes on their feet.   They also have unusually long, strong, prehensile tails.  The tail's underside is hairless, and the skin is marked with whorls and grooves - as individual as any human's thumbprint.  

1 comment:

  1. molly is a pretty monkey . me and my brother were thinking if spider monkeys had thumbs,so i got on the internet and found the answer. when i was looking at the sign name our baby monkey i came up with monkey baby or spidy

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