The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) is a New World monkey endemic to Peru, found only in the montane cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes at about 1,500 to 2,700 metres, mainly in Amazonas and San Martin. It was long placed in its own genus, Oreonax, but is now placed in Lagothrix by the American Society of Mammalogists and the IUCN Red List. Humboldt described it in 1812 from a skin that a local man used as a horse saddle, and it was thought extinct until its rediscovery in 1974. Adults are among the largest Peruvian endemic mammals, averaging about 8 kilograms, with a deep mahogany coat, a whitish snout patch and a prehensile tail whose last third is yellowish. It eats mostly fruit, is arboreal and diurnal, and lives in groups of around 23. Habitat loss and hunting have made it critically endangered.
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The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) is a species of New World monkey endemic to Peru.
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Conservation
This and its restricted geographic distribution have led to this species' current critically endangered status.
Diet and natural history
Its diet is primarily frugivorous, but leaves, flowers, insects and other invertebrates are also eaten.
Habitat and distribution
The yellow-tailed woolly monkey lives in the montane cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes at elevations of 1,500-2,700 m (4,900-8,900 ft) above sea level
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The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) is a species of New World monkey endemic to Peru.
Conservation, population trend
have led to a predicted decline of at least 80% over the next three generations.
Conservation, threats
habitat loss and fragmentation from agriculture, logging and cattle ranching, and subsistence hunting
Diet and natural history, activity pattern
The species is arboreal and diurnal.
Conservation, relationship to people
which has helped local people understand the importance in preserving the monkeys and that the monkeys can be used as a valuable tourist attraction.
Description
The average adult weight is approximately 8 kg (18 lb)
In Ecosystem: Forest, Distribution and habitat
characterized by humid, mountainous tropical forest
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Yellow-tailed woolly monkey, Lagothrix flavicauda
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