Treetop Chanting

Black Howler Monkey at the Omaha Zoo. 5/12/19. Nikon d700, Tamron 150-600 g2

Hey, why’s it a black howler monkey if it’s not black!?

Two reasons:

  • Much like how female white-cheeked gibbons are really just white gibbons, female black howlers never actually turn black.
  • I’m not 100% certain on the identification; it might not be a black howler, but everything I can find on Omaha’s Lied Jungle only references black howlers and not any of the other howler species.

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