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Yucatán black howler, the Glossary

The Yucatán black howler, or Guatemalan black howler, (Alouatta pigra) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America.^[1]

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Fauna of Southern Mexico
Fauna of the Yucatán Peninsula
Howler monkeys
Mammals described in 1933
Taxa named by Barbara Lawrence (zoologist)

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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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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Baboon

Baboons are primates comprising the genus Papio, one of the 23 genera of Old World monkeys, in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Barbara Lawrence (July 30, 1909 – 1997), sometimes known as Barbara Lawrence Schevill, was an American paleozoologist and mammalogist known for her studies of canids, porpoises and howler monkeys and her work as the mammal curator at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Central American squirrel monkey

The Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii), also known as the red-backed squirrel monkey, is a squirrel monkey species from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama.

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Community Baboon Sanctuary is a protected area in Belize.

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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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Evergreen forest

An evergreen forest is a forest made up of evergreen trees.

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Folivore

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

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Geoffroy's spider monkey

Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), also known as the black-handed spider monkey or the Central American spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia. Yucatán black howler and Geoffroy's spider monkey are Endangered biota of Mexico, Endangered fauna of North America and mammals of Mexico.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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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). Yucatán black howler and Howler monkey are howler monkeys.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Isthmus

An isthmus (isthmuses or isthmi) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.

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List of Central American monkey species

At least seven monkey species are native to Central America.

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Mantled howler

The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. Yucatán black howler and mantled howler are howler monkeys and mammals of Mexico.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Muriqui

The muriquis, also known as woolly spider monkeys, are the monkeys of the genus Brachyteles.

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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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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Prehensility

Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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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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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Spider monkey

Spider monkeys are New World monkeys belonging to the genus Ateles, part of the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae.

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Sympatry

In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.

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