Family ATELIDAE

(HOWLERS, SPIDER AND WOOLLY MONKEYS AND MURIQUIS)

• Medium-sized to large monkeys with long limbs or shorter limbs and more robust, howlers with enlarged voice-box and head set low on shoulders (hunched), dense and woolly or long and coarse fur, and long, strong, prehensile tail.

• 80-160 cm.

• Neotropical Region

• Humid, lowland, submontane and montane, deciduous, and semi-deciduous forests.

• 5 genera, 25 species, 42 taxa.

• 4 species Critically Endangered, 8 species Endangered, 5 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.