#0487 · 🦊 mammals

Common Woolly Monkey

🇳🇱 Grijze Wolaap ·Lagothrix lagothricha

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Thibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Thibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Wilbert Camacho Guillen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Maués, BR-AM, BR:© wilmotsenaratne · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Maués, BR-AM, BR:© marcoseugenio · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Oxapampa, PE-PA, PE:© Thibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Ecuador:© Clément panisse · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Maués, BR-AM, BR:© kezzaman · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Maynas, PE-LO, PE:© Marie-Ange Ostre · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. Ecuador:© Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The common woolly monkey , brown woolly monkey , or Humboldt's woolly monkey ( 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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,910iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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.
1,910 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Alexander von Humboldt in 1812 (214 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.