Common woolly monkey

Common woolly monkey
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
Range of type subspecies, L. lagothrica lagothrica
Synonyms
  • Lagothrix lagotricha (Humboldt, 1812)
  • Gastrimargus infumatus Spix, 1823
  • Lagothrix caparro Lesson, 1840
  • Lagothrix caroarensis Lonnberg, 1931
  • Lagothrix geoffroyi Pucheran, 1857
  • Lagothrix humboldtii É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
  • Macaco barrigo Natterer, 1883

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.