Scientific name:
Aotes trivirgatus

Natural spread:
South America

the night-monkey is moderate-sized with a head-torso-length of 35 cm; its tail measures until 50 cm. it is the single one at the nightlife of tried on form of the Newcomer-world-monkeys . Above all the gigantic eyes enable it to it, but also one well developed feels and area-mind, that u itself. a. in zartgliedrigen fingers with Tastbeeren and a cross of nail and claw expresses. The tail cannot be used for grasping but hangs down usually loosely.

Spread Night-monkeys are widespread in South America and occur in almost all forest-areas. Even, one can find it near human Behausungen.

Way of life The animals live in pairs in quite small precincts and spend the day, together asleep, again in tree-caves, to which it usually place-scatters, comes back. Beside tender Zwitschertönen, they, above all in the dawn, can organize resounding bellow-concerts far-to. Also these monkeys often bring twins to the world what one can regard in certain sense as primitive train; it awards these night-monkeys, who are called also Mirikinas by natives, the position of an original special-form of the Newcomer-world-monkeys according to opinion of some researchers. Night-monkeys live above all from insects, frogs, small-birds and small-mammals as well as from fruits and honey.