Diet Overlap

Alouatta palliata (mantled howler monkey)
Alouatta pigra (Mexican black howler monkey)

Common Diet

Brosimum alicastrum (breadnut)
Ficus aurea (Florida strangler fig)
Ficus insipida
Ficus nymphaeifolia (amate)
Ficus yoponensis
Samanea saman (Rain Tree)

Common Habitat

Mesoamerica
Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves
Middle America
Pantanos de Centla
Petén-Veracruz moist forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1Feeding 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)
2Feeding Ecology of the Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra) in Northern Belize, S.C. SILVER, L.E.T. OSTRO, C.P. YEAGER, AND R. HORWICH, American Journal of Primatology 45:263–279 (1998)
3"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
4Flexibility in Diets of Three Species of Costa Rican Primates, Colin Chapman, Folia primatol. 49: 90-105 (1987)