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Show Howler Monkey Is Noisy The howler monkey, whose deep-throated deep-throated voice echoes through the depths of the Panamanian jungles can be heard in the jungle day and night and many visitors have mistaken mis-taken it for the roar of lions. His voice, like that of the singing toad, is louder from a distance, decreasing decreas-ing in volume as one approaches. But even at close range it is unusual un-usual when compared with the birdlike bird-like notes of whitefaced and other species of monkeys. Even though he is small in comparison to a lion, the mantled howler is the largest and heaviest of all New World monkeys. mon-keys. His fur is unusually beautiful beauti-ful shading from very dark brown tones to light. He is of a gregarious gre-garious nature, traveling in troupe3 and swinging through the tree tops. He swings by his tail, a characteristic charac-teristic peculiar to New World monkeys- |