The Woolly Monkey
- class: Mammalia
- order: Primates
- family: Cebidae
- species: Lagothrix
lagotricha
This monkey lives in large groups that split up to feed. During the day, it moves from one tree to the next in search of fruit and leaves. It hangs by its tail to reach food it cannot get with its hands. The woolly monkey does not come out of the trees often, but when it does, it walks in an upright position.
The gestation period lasts about five months, after which time a single offspring is born.
The woolly monkey has a flexible, prehensile tail that it can use like an extra hand to hold objects. Its body is covered with a thick, gray-brown coat. Its head is large and round and its face is hairless. The woolly monkey has long arms and legs.
- distribution: The Amazon basin, the Orinoco River, the upper reaches of the Amazon and the eastern part of the Andes.
- habitat: Equatorial forests
- biome: Rain forest
- male body length: 2 ft.
- female body length: 1.9 ft.
- male tail length: 2.3 ft.
- female tail length: 2.4 ft.
- male weight: 13 lbs.
- female weight 18 lbs.
- home range: 2,700 acres
- offspring per conception: 1
- gestation period: 21 wk
- period before weaning: 21 wk
- time to sexual maturity: 4
yrs.
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