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Asked by Hobbes to Lydia on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Dogs123.
Question: Can you tell me a little about howler monkeys please?
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Lydia Bach answered on 10 Nov 2014:
Hiya Hobbes,
of course! They are really amazing moneys that live in Bolivia, a country in South America. They can be up to four feet tall! They are actually omnivores, which means they pretty much eat anything, but we would watch them pick fruits from the trees of the little forest island we camped in the Savannah. It is really easy to see a difference between males and females: males are dark brown and females have blonde fur. There is a picture of one of them on the bottom of my profile, can you tell if its a male or a female?
They are called howler moneys because of the sounds they make to mark their territory. Once I went to the little toilet house we had in the forrest and they started howling! So creepy! Check it out:
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Hobbes commented on :
Amazing thanks. Oh and by the way it’s a female monkey isn’t it?
Lydia commented on :
Yes, its a female – her baby was clinging to her back, but I wasn’t able to take a picture of it 🙂