📸 PhotoPhoto: Stavenn · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Humboldt's Night Monkey
Aotus trivirgatus (Humboldt's Night Monkey · フンボルトヨザル)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its average weight of 800 g is about the weight of two loaves of sliced bread (Comparison).
- 💡 Because it can carry human malaria parasites, it has been used in testing antimalarial drugs and is also sold as a pet (ADW positive economic importance).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Humboldt's night monkey is a nocturnal monkey living in the tropical forests of Central and South America, and almost the only group among New World monkeys active at night.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its coat varies by region from grayish brown to brown or reddish, with a pale to orange underside. Among New World monkeys, it has the most highly developed olfactory bulb region.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on fruits, insects, nectar, and leaves, supplementing its diet with lizards, frogs, and eggs for protein. Parents and grown offspring form family groups, and females give birth to one young a year.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2021) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41543/191681999
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000752
- • iucnredlist.org — 191681999
- • wikidata.org — Q307153
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Stavenn Aotus trivirgatus 00.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Aotus trivirgatus
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Kai Caspar · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Aotus lemurinus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.