Endangered
Yucatán black howler
Alouatta pigra
Yucatán black howler is a New World monkey in the family Atelidae (order Primates) — Alouatta pigra, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adults of both sexes have long, black hair and a prehensile tail, while infants have brown fur. Males over four months old have white scrotums. It lives in evergreen, semideciduous and lowland rain forests.
On average, males weigh 11.4 kg (25 lb) and females weigh 6.4 kg (14 lb).
Range and habitat
It is found in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, in and near the Yucatán Peninsula.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The species is considered to be endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because the species population is expected to decline by up to 60% over the next 30 years. Threats to the species include habitat loss, hunting, and capture as pets. In Belize, it is illegal to hunt this species.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Yucatán black howler is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Yucatán black howler, Wikidata item Q849419. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
