Mexican Black Howler Monkey Skull

$182.00

The Mexican howler monkey has a prehensile tail, a deep jaw, and a large pharynx which it uses to make characteristically deep and resonating howls.

Description

Mexican Black Howler Monkey Skull Replica measures 4.5 inches. Mexican Black Howler Monkey Skull is museum quality polyurethane cast. 2-part skull (separate cranium & jaw). Made in USA. California Academy of Sciences Specimen. Our precise skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home décor skull, or office décor skull.

Mexican Black howler Monkey or Alouatta palliata mexicana is a subspecies of the mantled howler, A. palliata. This subspecies is found predominantly in forests between south eastern Mexico and north eastern Peru.

The Mexican Black howler monkey has a prehensile tail, a deepest jaw with small incisors and large canines, and a large vocal box to make deep howls.

They can eat a remarkable variety of foods including leaves, flower, buds, petioles, and fruits. Their digestive system is slow and they have significantly fewer enzymes for protein and fiber digestion, but they compensate for this by selectively eating leaves with less fiber.

Much of the Mexican Black howler monkey or Alouatta palliata mexicana activity is dedicated for foraging for fruit and young leaves which it can easily digest.

Mexican Black howler monkey has compensated for its adapted digestive system by minimizing energy output as much as possible. The Mexican howler exhibits limited interaction with members of its species and very minor aggressive behavior.

There is evidence of physical aggression between members of the species during migratory periods or changes in dominance.

Males, when fighting for dominance, have been observed to target juveniles, sometimes even killing them, and physically injuring older males.

For a younger Mexican Black howler monkey or Alouatta palliata mexicana male to take control of a group, he must first kill the dominant male, exhibiting extensive aggression.

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Additional information

Weight 3 lbs
Dimensions 4.5 in
Mexican Howler Monkey Facts:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Alouatta
Species: A. palliata
Subspecies: A. p. mexicana
Trinomial name: Alouatta palliata mexicana
A critically endangered species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.