Brown Woolly Monkey

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Brown Woolly Monkey

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species: L. lagotricha
Binomial name
Lagothrix lagotricha
(Humboldt, 1812)

The Brown Woolly Monkey or Common Woolly Monkey, Lagothrix lagotricha, is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. It lives in groups of 2 to 70 individuals, usually splitting the group into smaller subgroups while in activity.

Brown Woolly Monkey on tree
Brown Woolly Monkey on tree

[edit] References

  • Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 152. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  • Neotropical Rainforest Mammals (1997), Louise Emmons and Francois Feer
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