#aotidae

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

There’s no job like a single dad- just ask Nancy Ma’s night monkey. Just a week after giving birth, mothers of this species drive off their young, who then receive sole care from their fathers. These dads carry their babies from tree to tree, groom them, and teaches them all the skills they need to be successful monkeys. Because of this, the bond between father and child remains strong well into an adulthood.

(Image: A Nancy Ma’s night monkey (Aotus nancymaae) by Seig Kopinitz)

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Three-Striped owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus) in Zoo Zagreb, Croatia

by Hrvoje Sasek

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Can you do evolutions for the monkey Quirk?

"Monkey" could have some simple but useful equipment. Aside from pouches to carry some snakes in, weapons would be exceptionally useful to the user. Something like a bo staff or knives even. Maybe even a weapon for the tail itself, like a knife attachment. And, of course, there is the perfect opportunity for a Sun Wukong-inspired get-up. For training, a lot of it could focus on marital arts, either using weapons or their own body. Because of the innate power of the form and the extra ways to wield these techniques, they could be very dangerous in the user's hands. This training could be done in the heat and low on food, developing the user's body to overcome the two major weaknesses of the Quirk. For evolutions, while the innate traits would get stronger, the Quirk could evolve to cover similar traits of other monkeys, similar to what Tsuyu does. The most notable would be the howler monkey, making a small sonic attack, the galagos, improving their overall eyesight, the nihonzaru, making the user more resistant to environmental conditions, the aotidae, granting the user the ability to see in the dark, or the loris, which is apparently venomous. Though considering that the last one can rot flesh, I'm thinking it would be toned down, such as by inflicting general pain.

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so the midterm was 15 multiple choice, 10 one-sentence definitions, and three short answer questions that she accepted point form for and I finished it in 30 mins so I panicked for three days straight for nothing

[monkeywiki]

Just in case you weren’t already aware

the following list shows where the various monkey families (bolded) are placed in the classification of living (extant) primates 

 ORDER PRIMATES

Suborder Strepsirrhini: lemurs, lorises, and galagos

Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers, monkeys, and apes

Infraorder Tarsiiformes

Infraorder Simiiformes: simians

Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers

Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys

Parvorder Catarrhini

Family Callitrichidae: marmosets and tamarins (42 species)

Family Cebidae: capuchins and squirrel monkeys (14 species)

Family Aotidae: night monkeys (11 species)

Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis, and uakaris (41 species)

Family Atelidae: howler, spider, and woolly monkeys (24 species)

Superfamily Cercopithecoidea

Superfamily Hominoidea: apes

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)

Family Hylobatidae: gibbons ("lesser apes") (17 species)

Family Hominidae: great apes (including humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) (8 species)

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Aotus vociferans

Mono nocturno vociferante

Ilustración @santiagocorderop

Fotografía: Luis Gualavisí

Técnica: acuarela sobre papel

Orden: Primates | Familia: Aotidae

Provincias

Sucumbíos, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Morona Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe

Regiones naturales

Bosque Húmedo Tropical Amazónico, Bosque Piemontano Oriental

Etimología

El género Aoutos, proviene de dos palabras griegas a, prefijo que significa no, sin, no hay, no tiene y ous, genitivo de otos que significa oreja, “no tiene orejas” en alusión a que estas son muy pequeñas, apenas perceptibles entre el pelaje. La especie vociferans proviene de las palabras latinas vox o vocis, voz; y ferre, llevar “clamor, vociferación, dar grandes voces”. El nombre se presta para confusión ya que sus cantos son tenues, cortos y pueden pasar desapercibidos (Tirira, 2004). Hábitat y biología. El mono Aotus vociferans es una especie nocturna. Se alimenta principalmente de frutos, artrópodos, néctar y polen (Wright, 1989; Fernández-Duque, 2007).Para refugiarse usan como dormideros hueco de árboles, los cuales se encuentran relativamente en pocos árboles.

Distribución

Habita en Sudamérica en Ecuador, Colombia, Perú y Brasil. Al norte del Río Amazonas-Salomoes (Morales-Jiménez, et al. 2008). En Ecuador habita en la Amazonía dentro de los bosques húmedos tropicales. En la Cordillera del Cóndor puede llegar hasta los 1 550 metros de altitud, dentro de los bosques subtropicales (Tirira, 2007). https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/mammaliaweb/FichaEspecie/Aotus%20vociferans

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