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Venezuelan red howler, Uraba, Colombia
Found relatively low amidst bamboo in Uraba. They usually live in groups, yet we only saw this single individual. Possibly it is an expelled male. Similar to male lions, they are banned from their original group at a certain age, after which they need to invade a new group by killing its leader, and any offspring it may have.
The red howler is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. The population in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia was split off as a separate species, the Bolivian red howler, in 1986, and more recently, splitting off the population in northeastern South America and Trinidad as the Guyanan red howler has been recommended. All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder.. more
