Wooly Monkey

English Name: Wooly Monkey

Scientific Name: Lagothrix lagothrica

Spanish Name: Mono Corteje

Size: 65-80 cm

Life span: 5-7 years of age

Diet: The monkey has more than 50% of leaves in their diets, but other animals prefer ripe fruit; fruit and flowers can account for 50% of the diet when plentiful. It also eats seeds, pollen, bark, bamboo, and ferns. During periods of fruit shortage, the wooly monkey may also eat nectar. All of the monky's percentages of food intake vary depending on if it is the rainy or dry season. In order to get at the best food in tall trees, it can utilize four or all of its limbs to stabilize itself on small branches.

Predators: Human is the most common predator to a wooly monkey.

Adaptations: Started hiding from human tree to tree so they dont get hunt. Wooly monkeys like all monkeys walk with a hump on their back, because of their balancs.

Interesting Facts: Have group ranges about 4-35 monkeys. Hides from humans jumping gaps from a tree to another. Reproduction: Most wooly monkeys births occur in the dry season from May until September. Researchers observed a male: female birth ration of 1:1.7. Females reach sexual maturity at an average age of 11 years, males at 5.5 years. The preagnet period lasts 7-8.5 months. Females exhibit no outward sign of estrus. The litter size is usually one, with rare observations of twins. There are six interbirth intervals averaging 33.8 months (they range from 26-39 months). Infant birth weight usually comes in around four pounds. It mostly lives in Brazil.

Bibliography:
"Wooly Monkey" http://www.missouri.edu/~mmm9f9/anth60/facts/wspider.html
Missouri. 20 Mar. 2003 <>
"Wooly monkey" http://www.webshots.com/g/25/520-sh/18301.html Web shots. 20 Mar. 2003 <>
"Wooly monkey" http://www.edu.pe.ca/vrcs/grassroots/1999/grade4/animalmarggill/kyle/food.html 20 Mar. 2003 <>

Written by- Nicolas Sarmiento
and Conrad Anguera.