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The white-faced capuchin, which has a range from Honduras to Ecuador, [14] is the second smallest Costa Rican monkey. Adult males average 3.7 kg (8.2 lb) and adult females average 2.7 kg (6.0 lb). [9] The mantled howler, with a range from Mexico to Ecuador, [15] is the second largest monkey species in
Sitting Alouatta palliata, or Congo monkey, Costa Rica. The name comes from the mantled howler monkey, locally known as Congo monkey, as it is common to find it in the region and its howling can be heard at great distances.
Within Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, the mantled howler is found in locations throughout the countries. [5] In Colombia and Ecuador, it is found in a narrow corridor bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes Mountains to the east and also in Colombia in a small area near the Caribbean Sea close to the Panama border ...
The population density has been estimated at 36 monkeys per square kilometer (93 per square mile) in Costa Rica and 130 monkeys per square kilometer (337 per square mile) in Panama. [15] It has been estimated that the population of the Central American squirrel monkey has been reduced from about 200,000 in the 1970s to less than 5,000. [ 21 ]
Corcovado National Park is the only park in Costa Rica in which all the country's four monkey species can be seen. [20] The more accessible Manuel Antonio National Park is the only other park in Costa Rica in which the Central American squirrel monkey is found, and the Panamanian white-faced capuchin and mantled howler are also commonly seen there.
Mantled howler Geoffroy's spider monkey. The order Primates contains humans and their closest relatives: lemurs, lorisoids, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. Four species of monkey are native to Costa Rica. Suborder: Haplorhini. Infraorder: Simiiformes. Parvorder: Platyrrhini (New World monkeys) Family: Cebidae. Subfamily: Cebinae. Genus: Cebus
The lesula is the second new species of African monkey to be discovered since 1984. [2] This monkey is described to have human looking eyes and a blue bottom [ 3 ] [ 4 ] “And adult males have a huge bare patch of skin in the buttocks, testicles and perianal area,” said John A. Hart, the researcher who described the monkey.
The black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii oerstedii) is a subspecies of the Central American squirrel monkey.Its range is restricted to the Pacific coast of western Panama to the western portion of the Chiriquí Province and of southern Costa Rica, south of the Rio Grande de Terraba, including the Osa Peninsula.