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Alouatta palliata (mantled howler monkey)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), or golden-mantled howling monkey, is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is one of the monkey species most often seen and heard in the wild in Central America. It takes its "mantled" name from the long guard hairs on its sides. The mantled howler is one of the largest Central American monkeys, and males can weigh up to 9.8 kg (22 lb).
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.31
EDGE Score: 1.67
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [2]  15.43 lbs (7.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  409 grams
Female Maturity [2]  3 years
Male Maturity [2]  3 years 6 months
Arboreal [1]  Yes
Diet [1]  Herbivore
Gestation [2]  6 months 6 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  24 years
Weaning [2]  1 year 2 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Central American Atlantic moist forests Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Chiapas Depression dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chiapas montane forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests Colombia, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests Costa Rica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests Ecuador, Colombia, Peru Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests Colombia, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ecuadorian dry forests Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Guayaquil flooded grasslands Ecuador Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests Costa Rica, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves Bahamas, United Kingdom Neotropic Mangroves
Miskito pine forests Honduras, Nicaragua Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Motagua Valley thornscrub Guatemala Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Northwestern Andean montane forests Colombia, Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Panamanian dry forests Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Pantanos de Centla Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Petén-Veracruz moist forests Mexico, Guatemala, Belize Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
South American Pacific mangroves Colombia, Panama, Ecuador Neotropic Mangroves    
Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Neotropic Mangroves    
Talamancan montane forests Costa Rica, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tumbes-Piura dry forests Ecuador, Peru Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Western Ecuador moist forests Colombia, Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Barro Colorado Island Natural Monument III   Panama  
Capiro - Calentura National Park II 13996 Honduras  
Celaque National Park II 66197 Honduras  
Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park II 51798 Honduras  
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  
Cordillera Volcanica Central Forest Reserve VI 150571 Costa Rica  
Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge IV 19771 Honduras    
Cusuco National Park II 44047 Honduras  
El Ocote Ecological Reserve Biosphere Reserve VI 251855 Chiapas, Mexico  
Jardin Botánico Lancetilla Biological Reserve IV   Honduras  
Jeanette Kawas National Park 6379 Honduras    
La Muralla National Park II 36946 Honduras  
La Reserva de la Planada   Colombia        
La Selva Biological Station Protective Zone VI 6052 Costa Rica
Maya Multiple Use Area 1156412 Guatemala  
Merendón   Honduras        
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve VI 814711 Chiapas, Mexico  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  
Patuca National Park II 935848 Honduras  
Pico Bonito National Park II 138952 Honduras    
Pico Pijol National Park II 29599 Honduras  
Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve 3163 Costa Rica
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve   Honduras        
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Reserva Karen Mogensen F. Nature Reserve 1866 Costa Rica  
Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad Biosphere Reserve II 493313 Costa Rica  
Reserva del Noroeste Biosphere Reserve 571807 Peru  
Reserva Estatal del Palmar Reserve 122954 Mexico    
Rus Rus Biological Reserve   Honduras        
Sierra de Agalta National Park II 128902 Honduras  
Tawahka Anthropological Reserve 626425 Honduras  
Texiguat Wildlife Refuge IV 39364 Honduras  
Warunta   Honduras        

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website Map
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Albizia saman (Rain Tree)[3]
Albizia tomentosa[4]
Brosimum alicastrum (breadnut)[4]
Bursera simaruba (gumbo limbo)[3]
Castilla elastica (Panama rubbertree)[3]
Cecropia obtusifolia (guarumo)[4]
Cecropia schreberiana subsp. antillarum (Trumpet tree)[5]
Ficus colubrinae[4]
Ficus cotinifolia[6]
Ficus insipida[6]
Ficus jimenezii[4]
Ficus nymphaeifolia (amate)[6]
Ficus tecolutensis[4]
Ficus tonduzii[6]
Ficus yoponensis[6]
Hymenaea courbaril (stinkingtoe)[3]
Lonchocarpus costaricensis (Pavilla)[3]
Manilkara chicle[3]
Poulsenia armata[4]
Pseudolmedia oxyphyllaria[4]
Pterocarpus rohrii (Pau-sangue)[4]
Sideroxylon capiri[3]
Sideroxylon portoricense subsp. minutiflorum[4]
Spondias radlkoferi[4]
Tetragastris panamensis[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Alouatta pigra (Mexican black howler monkey)5
Amazona albifrons (White-fronted Parrot)5
Amazona auropalliata (Yellow-naped Parrot)2
Amazona farinosa (Mealy Parrot)2
Amazona finschi (Lilac-crowned Parrot)4
Aratinga canicularis (Orange-fronted Parakeet)2
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)10
Artibeus lituratus (great fruit-eating bat)4
Artibeus phaeotis (pygmy fruit-eating bat)2
Ateles geoffroyi (Central American spider monkey)13
Bassaricyon gabbii (Olingo)2
Brotogeris jugularis (Orange-chinned Parakeet)4
Cebus capucinus (white-faced capuchin)8
Chiroderma villosum (hairy big-eyed bat)2
Chlorophanes spiza (Green Honeycreeper)2
Euphonia affinis (Scrub Euphonia)2
Hylocichla mustelina (Wood Thrush)2
Nasua narica (White-nosed Coati)2
Nasua nasua (South American Coati)2
Penelope purpurascens (Crested Guan)3
Platyrrhinus helleri (Heller's broad-nosed bat)3
Potos flavus (Kinkajou)5
Pteroglossus torquatus (Collared Aracari)2
Ramphastos sulfuratus (Keel-billed Toucan)2
Ramphocelus carbo (Silver-beaked Tanager)2
Saguinus oedipus (cotton-top tamarin)4
Sciurus granatensis (red-tailed squirrel)2
Tangara gyrola (Bay-headed Tanager)2
Tangara mexicana (Turquoise Tanager)2
Thraupis episcopus (Blue-grey Tanager)3
Tityra semifasciata (Masked Tityra)2
Turdus grayi (Clay-colored Thrush)2
Uroderma bilobatum (tent-making bat)3
Vampyressa nymphaea (striped yellow-eared bat)4
Vampyrodes caraccioli (great stripe-faced bat)3
Vireo altiloquus (Black-whiskered Vireo)2

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Controrchis biliophilus <Unverified Name>[8]
Dermatobia hominis (human botfly)[9]
Prosthenorchis elegans[9]
Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae[9]
Shigella sonnei[9]

Range Map

Link to Map
Middle America; South America;

External References

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Groves C.P., 30-Jul-2002, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Flexibility in Diets of Three Species of Costa Rican Primates, Colin Chapman, Folia primatol. 49: 90-105 (1987) ♦ 4Feeding and General Activity Patterns of a Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Troop Living in a Forest Fragment at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, Alejandro Estrada, Saúl Juan-Solano, Teresita Ortíz Martínez and Rosamond Coates-Estrada, American Journal of Primatology 48:167-183 (1999) ♦ 5Phenology, seed dispersal, and recruitment in Cecropia peltata (Moraceae) in Cost Rican tropical dry forest, Theodore H. Fleming and Charles F. Williams, Journal of Tropical Ecology (1990) 6:163-178 ♦ 6"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572 ♦ 7MONKEY DISPERSAL AND WASTE OF A NEOTROPICAL FRUIT, Henry F. Howe, Ecology, 61(4), 1980, pp. 944-959 ♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 9Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International
Images provided by Google Image Search
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
EDGE analysis provided by EDGE of Existence programme, Zoological Society of London
Range map provided by Patterson, B. D., G. Ceballos, W. Sechrest, M. F. Tognelli, T. Brooks, L. Luna, P. Ortega, I. Salazar, and B. E. Young. 2007. Digital Distribution Maps of the Mammals of the Western Hemisphere, version 3.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Bruce Patterson, Wes Sechrest, Marcelo Tognelli, Gerardo Ceballos, The Nature Conservancy—Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International—CABS, World Wildlife Fund—US, and Environment Canada—WILDSPACE.
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