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Kryssia Campos/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Conservationists said they have obtained the first-ever video of a baby spider monkey birth in the wild as the critically endangered species struggles to repopulate amid continued habitat loss. A baby brown-headed spider monkey named Anku was born on Jan. 22 in the Chocó, a tropical forest region in northwest Ecuador, Felipe Alfonso-Cortes and Nathalia Fuentes, co-founders of conservation group Proyecto Washu told ABC News. The first documentation of a wild spider monkey birth proved to be a dramatic one. After Anku was born, he was hanging in one of the tallest tree canopies about 50 feet in the air by his umbilical cord, terrifying the researchers below, who thought he might fall to the ground, Alfonso-Cortes said. "But fortunately it didn t happen, he said. "Unbelievable, in the end." The witnessing of spider monkey births are so rare because they typically happen at night, and you have to know where and when to look, Alfon

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