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howler monkey

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howler monkey

Widely distributed large Central and South American monkey. Howler monkeys are tree-dwelling and feed on fruit and leaves. They have a prominent, hairless face and deep jaw, and the tail is long and prehensile.

Howler monkeys howl at dawn to demarcate territory. The howling is produced by the unusually developed egg-shaped hyoid bone at the upper end of the wind-pipe, in a swelling beneath the chin; the whole forms a hollow, resonant soundbox.

Classification

Howler monkeys are in genus Alouatta, family Cebidae, order Primates.


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At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.
 
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