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Common Name: Squirrel Monkey
Scientific Name: Saimiri Sciureus

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Originally located in the Amazon Basin in South America.

Squirrel Monkeys can be found in gallery and edge forests. They reside at the intermediate forest levels, but may extend to the ground and upper canopy of the forest when searching for food.

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They are small monkeys with an omnivorous diet, eating fruits, other plant materials, invertebrates, and some small vertebrates. They have some predators including birds of prey, cats, and snakes.

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Squirrel monkeys can compete with other groups of squirrel monkeys for a territory in the trees, and for the food (berries, plants, insects) around the trees.

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Factors that are limiting the squirrel monkeys’ use of resources include loss of habitat due to deforestation. Groups of squirrel monkeys are forced to be crammed together more into a smaller space due to habitat loss. This can carets competition for food and hinder the population’s numbers.  Another limiting factor is illegal hunting and poaching. Squirrel Monkeys are poached for their fur and are sold at markets as pets or food.

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Squirrel Monkeys arrived in Florida via circuses, as pets, zoos, and marketing.

Where and When:

Broward County - 1950-70s

Marion County - 1930s

Polk County - 1960s

Collier County - 1960s

Palm Beach County - 1970

Monroe County - 1973 and 1978

Brevard County - 1976

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Method 1: Create a disease that would only affect squirrel monkey
Pros - Would be effective controlling entire populations as squirrel monkeys are social animals
Cons - Could spread to humans or mutate

Method 2: Place bounties on squirrel monkeys where for every one caught you got a reward.
Pros - Has the possibility to stop the growth of the population and wouldn’t require government force.
Cons - Could cause breeders to just breed and claim the bounty, could be expensive, and might not be enough manpower.

Method 3: Set many types of traps to see which works to best and change more traps to whatever works best.
Pros - If done right, could be cheap and effective.
Cons - Traps may catch wrong species or might not work. Traps might capture too slowly and the monkeys could learn to avoid traps.

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Our selected method is method three. It proves to be the most efficient and easiest way of trapping monkeys whilst littering the environment. We will definitely need some sort of permit for establishing traps as a control factor in the Florida Squirrel Monkey population.

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Effects of the Squirrel Monkey in Florida

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Effects of the Squirrel Monkey in Florida

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Squirrel monkeys caused a general disruption in the public. They were carriers of disease and parasites. They also caused some major destruction in some parts of Broward County, causing the decline in fruit production of fruit farms.

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