[9] Even though the brown spider monkey spends most of its time high in trees, it occasionally descends to eat soil and drink water.

[2] The brown spider monkey mainly forages in the forest canopy and relies mostly on its senses of sight, smell, taste, and touch to find food.

However, in drier seasons where fruit is less abundant, it feeds on leaves, seeds, flowers, bark, honey, decaying wood, and occasionally insects such as termites and caterpillars.

[6] The fragmented lands that brown spider monkeys live in, causes their social behavior and ranging patterns to vary.

The male-to-female aggression is very common and a consistent pattern, as it is a mechanism of social control for an indirect form of sexual coercion or a ritualized courtship.

[2] Almost 60 brown spider monkeys were recorded at various zoo (mostly European) that participated in the International Species Information System in 2010, but breeding is slow.

[11] One study did not show a significant difference between population densities inside versus outside forest areas disturbed by loggers.

It has been hypothesized that this anomaly is due to the sample being taken from El Paujil reserve, which is a protected area and may serve as refuge from other human activities, namely poaching.

[14] Conservation efforts such as alleviating the detrimental effects of fragmented landscapes on the brown spider monkey population are being pursued.

Corridors are being utilized to direct the brown spider monkeys back to their natural habitat that has been severely fragmented.

[15] A recent study performed in Central Colombia found that 21 out of 32 vertebrate species have used corridors that connect them to landscapes that have been fragmented.

[16] A small population of fewer than 30 individuals has been discovered in a protected area of Colombia, the Selva de Florencia National Natural Park [es].