Sapajus cay
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
Azaras's capuchin or hooded capuchin (Sapajus cay) is a species of robust capuchin. It occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Brazil, at Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso states, in Pantanal. Its habitat consists of subtropical, humid, semi-deciduous, gallery forests and forested regions of the Pantanals. Formerly, it was considered a subspecies of black-striped capuchin, according to Groves (2005) with the name Cebus libidinosus paraguayanus, but Silva Jr. (2001) considered it a separated species. They are considered as frugivores-insectivores which means that their diet mainly consists of a variety of fruits, seeds, arthropods, frogs, small mammals, etc.
Cebus and Sapajus have been widely recognized as subgenera–or groups–of the capuchin monkey's subfamily Cebinae. There is data hinting towards an estimated separation time between these two subgenera of about 6.2 million years. Evidence indicates that during the Miocene, these two groups diverged from each other due to the emergence of the Amazon river; Cebus (gracile capuchin) expanded northwards towards the Amazon rainforest, and Sapajus (robust capuchin) expanded... Wikipedia →
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Brazil · 2026
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denver Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Centro de Reeducación de los Monos Carayá | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | La Plata Zoo and Botanical Garden | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Zoo Park da Montanha | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Cóndor | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 6 | The Juana's Market | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Hooded Capuchin sighting in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas on a given day, based on 43 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 11 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and October
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Hooded Capuchin in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas on a given day, against about 10% in November, the lowest month. Those are among Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 190 mm in January.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hooded Capuchin sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, in our data
Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Hooded Capuchin sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hooded Capuchin is recorded against all the mammals logged in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas (43 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
