Buff-headed Capuchin
Sapajus xanthosternos
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Mammals
The golden-bellied capuchin, also known as the yellow-breasted or buff-headed capuchin, is a species of New World or neotropical monkey. It lives mainly in trees and are omnivorous, eating a wide variety of both plant and animals as food. Golden-bellied capuchin normal home range is in the Atlantic forest of Brazil and it is critically endangered due to forest fragmentation and habitat loss mainly due to agriculture, there are currently efforts to protect them by the local government.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cebidae
- Genus
- Sapajus