Common woolly monkey | |
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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
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Binomial name | |
Lagothrix lagothricha (Humboldt, 1812)
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Subspecies | |
Range of type subspecies, L. lagothrica lagothrica | |
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The common woolly monkey, brown woolly monkey, or Humboldt's woolly monkey[3] (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.