Zoologico de Cali 2012

Giant Eland · **Zoologico de Cali 2012** 14-06-2012

yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda)

Chlidonias · 15-06-2012

Was this the only one they had?

Are there any others kept elsewhere, does anybody know?

Giant Eland · 29-06-2012

Yes this was the only one they had. I was told it was found in a hotel room. Not sure if there are any others in smaller zoos in South America, but I doubt it. I know I never saw the species listed on ISIS anywhere.

Chlidonias · 29-06-2012

not something you'd normally expect to find in a hotel room.

"Excuse me concierge, there appears to be a monkey in my room."
"I see. What sort of monkey is it sir?"
"Well, it's a yellow-tailed woolly monkey."
"Very good, I'll have the boy see to that immediately sir"

Pygathrix · 29-06-2012

Thanks for posting GE. Why are they called yellow-tailed? I've looked at google images and the tails always seem to be the same brown colour as the rest of the animal?

Giant Eland · 30-06-2012

It seems like there's a slight bit of a yellowish color on the inner part of the final foot or so of the tail. Unfortunately I double checked and none of my photographs show that part of the tail. It was hard to photograph since it was behind wire.

Visible in this drawing here: Google Image Result for http://www.primate-sg.org/i/SNflavicaudaJ.jpg

and slightly in this photograph also: ARKive - Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey photo - Oreonax flavicauda - G100326

Giant Eland · 30-06-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chlidonias

not something you'd normally expect to find in a hotel room.

"Excuse me concierge, there appears to be a monkey in my room."
"I see. What sort of monkey is it sir?"
"Well, it's a yellow-tailed woolly monkey."
"Very good, I'll have the boy see to that immediately sir"

HAHA, I didn't see this before, nicely put!

Chlidonias · 30-06-2012

just as a matter of interest, the genus Oreonax is likely not separable from Lagothrix. See here for the full paper: http://www.primate-sg.org/PDF/NP15.1...isputed.v2.pdf

Quote:

Abstract

We summarize our re-examination and extension of the Groves (2001) parsimony analysis of Woolly monkeys, genus Lagothrix, which led him to conclude that the species flavicauda is not most closely related to lagotricha but to Ateles, the Spider monkeys. As a consequence, Groves further proposed that the Yellow-tailed woolly monkey should be assigned to a separate genus, Oreonax, previously erected by Oldfield Thomas (1927). Our analysis, while closely following his methods, samples a greater diversity of species and sub-species representing all the living ateline genera and makes minor revisions in Groves’ data matrix of craniodental characteristics. With this broader analysis we show that Groves’ cladistic results cannot be replicated except by duplicating his study using only a restricted range of taxa. A more wide ranging taxonomic sampling fails to link consistently flavicauda and other ateline species, in any particular cladogram topology, while the overall craniodental morphology of flavicauda does not separate it from lagotricha. Groves’ cladistic conclusion is likely to be an artifact stemming from a chance combination of the particular taxa used as a study group and selection of characters that may not be appropriate in intergeneric comparison. There is thus no justification for recognizing Oreonax as a distinct genus, and its usage should be rejected.

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