Common woolly monkey
Lagothrix lagothricha (Humboldt, 1812)
The common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) is a species in the family Atelidae, order Primates. Recorded adults live up to 29.3 years. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.
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Quick facts about the common woolly monkey
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- 28 years – 29.3 yearssrc for Lifespan
- Diet
- Frugivoresrc for Diet
- Longest recorded lifespan
- 32 years
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Gestation
- 224 dayssrc for Gestation
- Young per litter or clutch
- 1src for Young per litter or clutch
- Age at maturity
- 4.16 years – 6.79 yearssrc for Age at maturity
- Litters or clutches a year
- 0.5src for Litters or clutches a year
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the common woolly monkey live?
Not recorded
What is the common woolly monkey?
The common woolly monkey, brown woolly monkey, or Humboldt's woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. It lives in groups of two to 70 individuals, usually splitting the group into smaller subgroups when active.
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Is the common woolly monkey endangered?
The common woolly monkey is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.
- LCLeast Concern
- NTNear Threatened
- VUVulnerable
- ENEndangered
- CRCritically Endangered
- EWExtinct in the Wild
- EXExtinct
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species.
How is the common woolly monkey classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classMammalia
- orderPrimates
- familyAtelidae
- genusLagothrix
- SpeciesLagothrix lagothricha (Humboldt, 1812)
Synonyms Lagothrix cana, Lagothrix caparro, Lagothrix caroarensis, Lagothrix geoffroyi, Lagothrix humboldtii, Lagothrix lagotricha, Macaco barrigo, Simia lagothricha
Other names and names in other languages (48)
- Common wooly monkeyEnglish
- Gray woolly monkeyEnglish
- Gray wooly monkeyEnglish
- Grey woolly monkeyEnglish
- Humboldt's woolly monkeyEnglish
- Peruvian woolly monkeyEnglish
- Woolly monkeyEnglish
- سعدان صوفي رماديArabic
- chápan tmavošedýCzech
- grå uldabeDanish
- Brauner WollaffeGerman
- Γουνοφόρος Πίθηκος του GeoffroyGreek
- ChulucoSpanish
- BarrigudoSpanish
- ChurucuSpanish
- Macaco BarrigudoSpanish
- Marimono Del FrioSpanish
- Mico choloSpanish
- Mico Cholo Mono BarrigudoSpanish
- Mico churruscoSpanish
- Mono BarrigudoSpanish
- Mono CaparroSpanish
- Mono choyoSpanish
- Mono Lanudo CafeSpanish
- Mono Lanudo ComúnSpanish
- Mono RosilloSpanish
- Singe laineuxFrench
- Lagothriche de HumboldtFrench
- Lagotriche communFrench
- Lagotriche de HumboldtFrench
- Lagotriche grisFrench
- szürke gyapjasmajomHungarian
- Scimmia lanosa brunaItalian
- Lagotrice di HumboldtItalian
- コモンウーリーモンキーJapanese
- ハイイロウーリーモンキーJapanese
- Pátvhumbr
- Seumyy
- GråullapeNorwegian Bokmål
- Grijze WolaapDutch
- wełniak brunatnyPolish
- Macaco-barrigudoPortuguese
- macaco-barrigudo-cinzentoPortuguese
- Серая шерстистая обезьянаRussian
- Tseracatnc
- Kahverengi yünlü maymunTurkish
- Seuniamituo
- 棕絨毛猴Chinese
Relatives of the common woolly monkey
Other species in the same genus Lagothrix.
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Lagothrix flavicauda
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Is the common woolly monkey endangered?
The common woolly monkey is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.
How long does the common woolly monkey live?
The common woolly monkey has a recorded lifespan of 28 years – 29.3 years.
How long is the common woolly monkey pregnant?
The recorded gestation period is 224 days.
What kind of animal is the common woolly monkey?
The common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) belongs to the family Atelidae in the order Primates.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1 - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
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