A critically endangered Mexican spider monkey eats a piece of cactus on Monkey Island in Lake Catemaco, Mexico. The monkeys survive on wild cactus and hand outs from tourists. Lake Catemaco in Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico. The tropical freshwater lake at the center of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, is a popular tourist destination and known for free ranging monkeys, the rainforest backdrop and Mexican witches known as Brujos.

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Location: Lake Catemaco, Tanaxpillo, Veracruz, Mexico.
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
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