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title: "Common Woolly Monkey"
description: "Lagothrix lagothricha — Mammiferi. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/common-woolly-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Common Woolly Monkey

> Lagothrix lagothricha — Mammiferi. 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.

- Scientific name: *Lagothrix lagothricha*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammiferi)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1864
- Wikidata: [Q107054796](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107054796)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1369209](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1369209)

## Names

- en: Common Woolly Monkey
- de: Brauner Wollaffe
- es: Mono Barrigudo
- fr: Lagotriche commun

## Countries with the most observations

EC (781), PE (451), CO (220), BR (92)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_woolly_monkey

## Photo

![Common Woolly Monkey](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-woolly-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Whaldener Endo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120886123

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-woolly-monkey?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).