Silvery woolly monkey

The silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha poeppigii), also known as Poeppig's woolly monkey or the red woolly monkey, is a woolly monkey of South America named after the German zoologist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig and found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. It was first described as a species of its own, but a 2014 phylogenetic study found it to be a subspecies of the common woolly monkey, and the American Society of Mammalogists and the IUCN Red List follow that treatment. It lives in mature closed-canopy rainforest across Amazonia in multi-sex groups of 20 to 25 individuals, takes 64 to 89 percent of its diet as ripe or nearly ripe fruit, and breeds mainly from May to September. Males tend to stay in the natal group while females disperse.