With circa 150 living species, Brazil is – hands-down – the world’s most primate-diverse nation.
Colombia is also unusually primate-diverse.
You are looking at a small, arboreal, diurnal, monogamous monkey.
It eats fruits (& thereby distributes their seeds) & leaves (thereby, helping to “open up” the rainforest’s canopy, thus increasing the amount of light that reaches the forest floor) and insects. (it probably eats arachnids too)
Plecturocebus discolor has a number of “common” names; it is most commonly known as the white-tailed titi.
It is one of 41 New World monkey species that currently survive in Colombia.
Click here to discover more about Plecturocebus discolor.
Later, more substantive posts will feature several other monkey species, each of which is distinctly unlike each other.
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