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The Colombian red howler or Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.[1]

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  1. 30 relations: Amazon basin, Animal Diversity Web, Arboreal locomotion, Atelidae, Bolivian red howler, Brazil, Canopy (biology), Carl Linnaeus, Colombia, Diurnality, Dominance hierarchy, Ecuador, Folivore, Guyanan red howler, Howler monkey, Juruá red howler, Kilogram, New World monkey, Peru, Polygyny in animals, Prehensile tail, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Sex ratio, Sexual dimorphism, Sexual selection, South America, Trinidad, Ursine howler, Venezuela, 12th edition of Systema Naturae.

  2. Howler monkeys of South America
  3. Mammals described in 1766

Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Animal Diversity Web

The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit group that hosts an online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals.

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Atelidae

The Atelidae are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised.

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Bolivian red howler

The Bolivian red howler (Alouatta sara) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Bolivia. Colombian red howler and Bolivian red howler are howler monkeys of South America.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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Dominance hierarchy

In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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Folivore

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves.

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Guyanan red howler

The Guyanan red howler (Alouatta macconnelli) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, native to Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, French Guiana in France, Venezuela and Brazil. Colombian red howler and Guyanan red howler are howler monkeys of South America, Mammals of Venezuela and primates of Brazil.

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Howler monkey

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta, monotypic in subfamily Alouattinae) are the most widespread primate genus in the Neotropics and are among the largest of the platyrrhines along with the muriquis (Brachyteles), the spider monkeys (Ateles) and woolly monkeys (Lagotrix).

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Juruá red howler

The Juruá red howler (Alouatta juara) is a species of howler monkey, native to Peru and Brazil. Colombian red howler and Juruá red howler are howler monkeys of South America, Mammals of Peru and primates of Brazil.

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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New World monkey

New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Polygyny in animals

Polygyny (from Neo-Greek) is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a few males.

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Prehensile tail

A prehensile tail is the tail of an animal that has adapted to grasp or hold objects.

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Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)

Santa Cruz is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory.

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Sex ratio

A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Sexual selection

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Ursine howler

The ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea) is a species of howler monkey native to Venezuela and possibly Colombia. Colombian red howler and ursine howler are howler monkeys of South America and Mammals of Venezuela.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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12th edition of Systema Naturae

The 12th edition of Systema Naturae was the last edition of Systema Naturae to be overseen by its author, Carl Linnaeus.

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See also

Howler monkeys of South America

Mammals described in 1766

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_red_howler

Also known as Alouatta seniculus, Alouatta seniculus insulanus, Venezuelan Red Howler.