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BLACK HOWLER Alouatta caraya
Black Howlers are the largest Neotropical monkeys and are famed for the deep, bellowing calls that ring out across the forest. Males are entirely black, with a bearded face, females are quite different, being wholly creamy white. Howlers live in small troops of about 10 individuals that usually contain more than one male. Strangely the diet of Howlers consists almost exclusively of leaf matter - they are folivorous!
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FIGURE 1 - (FPMAM1082PH) Family, Tres Gigantes, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Paul Smith July 2012).
FIGURE 2 - (FPMAM331PH) Adult male, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 3 - (FPMAM332PH) Adult male, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 4 - (FPMAM333PH) Adult female, Isla Yacyretá, Departamento Misiones (Silvia Centrón October 2007).
FIGURE 5 - (FPMAM334PH) Adult female, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 6 - (FPMAM335PH) Adult female, Zoológico Juán XXIII, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2009).
FIGURE 7 - (FPMAM336PH) Juvenile male, Refugio de Vida Silvestre Yabebyry, Departamento Misiones (José Luis Cartes undated)
FIGURE 8 - (FPMAM1104PH) Dung, Isla Yacyreta, Departamento Misiones (Paul Smith October 2012)
VIDEO A - (FPMAM892VI) - Adult male, Isla Yacyretá, Departamento Misiones (Hugo del Castillo undated).
This is a large file that may take a while to download, but is worth a watch!
VIDEO B - (FPMAM1083VI) Family, Tres Gigantes, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Paul Smith July 2012).
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Alouatta caraya
1 (FPMAM339RE) Calls recorded Isla Yacyreta, Departamento Misiones (Paul Smith October 2009).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
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Black Howler Alouatta caraya
DORSAL (FPMAM338PH);  FRONTAL (FPMAM337PH)