Common woolly monkey
| Common woolly monkey | |
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| Common woolly monkey in La Vallée des Singes, France | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Atelidae |
| Genus: | Lagothrix |
| Species: | L. lagothricha |
| Binomial name | |
| Lagothrix lagothricha (Humboldt, 1812) | |
| Subspecies | |
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| Range of type subspecies, L. lagothrica lagothrica | |
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The common woolly monkey, brown woolly monkey, or Humboldt's woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. It lives in groups of two to 70 individuals, usually splitting the group into smaller subgroups when active.