White-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) near the RIU Palace Hotel in Guanacaste, Costa Rica


The Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), also known as the Panamanian white-headed capuchin or Central American white-faced capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America, the white-faced capuchin is important to rainforest ecology for its role in dispersing seeds and pollen.


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Location: RIU Palace, Guanacaste
Photo credit: © Carl DeAbreu / Alamy / Afripics
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