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title: "Douroucoli de Spix"
description: "Aotus vociferans — Mammifères. Spix's night monkey (Aotus vociferans), also known as the Colombian gray night monkey, noisy night monkey and Spix's owl monkey, is a night monkey species from South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/spix-s-night-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Douroucoli de Spix

> Aotus vociferans — Mammifères. Spix's night monkey (Aotus vociferans), also known as the Colombian gray night monkey, noisy night monkey and Spix's owl monkey, is a night monkey species from South America.

- Scientific name: *Aotus vociferans*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammifères)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forêt), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 317
- Wikidata: [Q508509](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508509)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43422](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43422)

## Names

- en: Spix's Night Monkey
- de: Spixnachtaffe
- es: Macaco Da Noite
- fr: Douroucoli de Spix

## Countries with the most observations

EC (143), CO (39), PE (27), BR (18)

## Summary

Spix's night monkey (Aotus vociferans), also known as the Colombian gray night monkey, noisy night monkey and Spix's owl monkey, is a night monkey species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The Spix's night monkey is a small bodied monkey species usually having a mass of
around one kilogram. It belongs to the only nocturnal genus of New World primates, Aotus. This type of monkey can leap farther than most due to it having longer arms than
legs. The monkey averages 0.5 meters in height. The night monkey is considered to be
a new world monkey.
The social behavior of the Aotus vociferans…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spix%27s_night_monkey

## Photo

![Douroucoli de Spix](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spix-s-night-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194410211

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spix-s-night-monkey?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).