EndangeredProboscis Monkey
Nasalis larvatus
3 countries7 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 18 species of monkey, spread across 4 families (Aotidae, Atelidae, Cebidae, Cercopithecidae).
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
8 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 69 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is an excellent swimmer, able to cover up to 20 metres underwater without surfacing, and its fingers are partly webbed.
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It feeds on young leaves, seeds and mangrove fruit, and occasionally on invertebrates such as caterpillars.
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It lives in the mangroves, riverine forest and swamp forest of Borneo, always close to water.
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It feeds mainly on leaves, an adaptation uncommon among American primates, supplemented with fruit and flowers.
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It lives in the humid and secondary tropical forest of Central America and north-western South America.
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Its prehensile tail lets it hold on to branches while it feeds or rests.
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It is one of the slowest-breeding primates, with three or four years between births.
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Its prehensile tail, longer than its body, works as a fully functional fifth limb.
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Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 18.
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