#0384 · 🦊 mammals

Colombian Red Howler Monkey

🇳🇱 Rode Brulaap ·Alouatta seniculus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © David Torres · CC BY-NC 4.0
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5. © D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Camilo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nick Komar · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Derek Caelin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Cristian A. Ramírez-Álvarez · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Venezuelan red howler ( Alouatta seniculus ) 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 occurred. All...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,451iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,451 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).