Cebus malitiosus
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In 3 days >90%
The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) is a species of gracile capuchin monkey from Colombia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Cebus albifrons or a synonym of the Colombian white-faced capuchin (C. capucinus), but Mittermeier and Rylands elevated it to a species in 2013, following previous work by Rylands, Hershkovitz, Cooper and Hernandez-Camacho. The IUCN follows this taxonomy.
The Santa Marta white-fronted capuchin range is restricted to forests near the northwest base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. Males have a head and body about 45.7 cm (18.0 in) long and a tail about 43.3 cm (17.0 in) long. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taipei Zoo | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin sighting in Tayrona National Natural Park on a given day, based on 246 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 2nd most-seen of the 11 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and April
In those months about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin in Tayrona National Natural Park on a given day, against about 10% in October, the lowest month. Those are among Tayrona National Natural Park's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 180 mm in October.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Santa Marta White-fronted 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 Tayrona National Natural Park, in our data
Tayrona National Natural Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin sightings: about 70% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Primates
The closest relatives of the Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin that you can see in Tayrona National Natural Park (order Primates) are Colombian Red Howler Monkey (about 70%) and Cotton-headed Tamarin (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin is recorded against all the mammals logged in Tayrona National Natural Park (246 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.
