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Alouatta palliata (mantled howler monkey)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), or golden-mantled howling monkey, is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is one of the monkey species most often seen and heard in the wild in Central America. It takes its "mantled" name from the long guard hairs on its sides.
View Wikipedia Record: Alouatta palliata

Infraspecies

Alouatta palliata aequatorialis
Alouatta palliata coibensis (Coiba howler monkey) (Attributes)
Alouatta palliata mexicana (Mexican Howler)
Alouatta palliata palliata (Golden-mantled Howler)
Alouatta palliata trabeata (Azuero Peninsula Howler)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Alouatta palliata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.31
EDGE Score: 1.67
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.432 lbs (7.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  409 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years
Male Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  6 months 6 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  24 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  30 inches (75 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year 2 months
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Controrchis biliophilus[10]
Dermatobia hominis (human botfly)[11]
Prosthenorchis elegans[11]
Salmonella enterica arizonae[11]
Shigella sonnei[11]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Feeding and General Activity Patterns of a Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Troop Living in a Forest Fragment at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, Alejandro Estrada, Saúl Juan-Solano, Teresita Ortíz Martínez and Rosamond Coates-Estrada, American Journal of Primatology 48:167-183 (1999)
♦ 6Flexibility in Diets of Three Species of Costa Rican Primates, Colin Chapman, Folia primatol. 49: 90-105 (1987)
♦ 7Phenology, seed dispersal, and recruitment in Cecropia peltata (Moraceae) in Cost Rican tropical dry forest, Theodore H. Fleming and Charles F. Williams, Journal of Tropical Ecology (1990) 6:163-178
♦ 8"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 9MONKEY DISPERSAL AND WASTE OF A NEOTROPICAL FRUIT, Henry F. Howe, Ecology, 61(4), 1980, pp. 944-959
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0