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Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Ready for Its Close-up
A young yellow-tailed woolly monkey plays in the rubbish behind a family’s house in Alto Mayo Valley, Peru / photos c. Shanee-NPC Noga Shanee of the Neotropical Primate Conservation group and Univ. San Marco researcher Fanny Cornejo visited this blog a few days ago to share some facts about the yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), an extremely rare primate found only in the cloud forests of Peru. As Noga and Fanny have so helpfully pointed out, I ran the wrong photo with my original post about this endangered monkey. Those images were of the common woolly tailed monkey, not the rarer yellow-tailed woolly. Mea culpa. A true yellow-tailed woolly has a white muzzle, as…