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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The tufted capuchin's tail is covered in hair.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tufted capuchin
- Scientific name
- Sapajus apella
- Japanese name
- フサオマキザル
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cebidae
- Genus
- Sapajus
It is a monkey found widely across the Amazon basin of South America, and it mainly eats fruit and insects.
A tuft of black hair stands up on top of its head, and it can also grip things with its tail.
It cracks hard nuts by banging them against tree trunks, and some groups even use stones to crack nuts.
How the Tufted capuchin lives
Besides fruit and insects, they eat leaves, flowers, seeds and small animals. Groups include males and females, sometimes with slightly more females.
日本モンキーセンターBasic data
- Diet
- Fruit, insects, leaves, flowers, seeds, and other small animals
- Range
- Amazon basin
Where the Tufted capuchin has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- フサオマキザル
- 简体中文
- 僧帽猴
- 繁體中文
- 僧帽猴
- 한국어
- 검은머리카푸친
- Español
- Mono maicero
- Français
- Capucin brun
- Deutsch
- Gehaubter Kapuziner
- Português (Brasil)
- Macaco-prego-castanho
- Italiano
- Cebo dai cornetti
- العربية
- كبوشي ذو الخصل
- Русский
- Капуцин-фавн
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本モンキーセンター — フサオマキザルChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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