Scientific name:
Lagothrix

Natural spread:
South America

the wool-monkeys lives in South America's middle and upper Amazon-area. they become 50-60 cm long the gripping-tail contributes even further 70 cm length to what. its short, dense wool-fur, whose coloring extends to brightly ocher according to subtype of black over gray, is characteristic. The round head and the bare, dark face with the fleeing forehead and the deep-set eyes effects the fleeting observer quite "grimly", but wool-monkeys are extraordinarily peaceful animals.

Habitat, way of life Wool-monkeys live purely vegetable from leaves, blooms and fruits. They climb leisurely on the search of food in the upper floors of the jungle-trees around. they populate rain-forests and moist mountain-forests as far as in heights of 2500 m.

Wool-monkeys live in large social-groups with several males. The groups can include up to 70 animals, who live together peacefully. The group-members frequently go in for mutual fur-care.

Types With all the caution against the severe variability of these monkeys, one distinguishes 2 types, the wool-monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) with bare, dark face and in approximately uniform fur-color as well as the yellow-tail-wool-monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) with light face-pack and yellow tail-underside, that a small spread-area has in the Andes below the Amazon-waiter-run.

Endangering Both types are considerably endangered through the increasing destruction of its habitat.