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In summary, howler monkeys are diverse and adaptable, thriving in diverse environments and maintaining good health and activity. Their diet includes leaves, fruits, nuts, and buds, with some species preferring bamboo as their main diet.
Other monkey species, such as macaques and howler monkeys, also include bamboo as part of their diet, but it may not make up the majority of their intake. These monkeys tend to have a more diverse diet that includes fruits, leaves, flowers, and insects.
Golden monkeys primarily eat bamboo leaves, fruits, bamboo shoots, and branchlets, with bamboo comprising 77% of their diet. They favor dense bamboo forests that provide both nourishment and habitat.
Howler monkeys are omnivores, they eat both plants and animals. They will also eat flowers, nuts, seeds, and even insects on occasion!
Howler monkeys are primarily folivorous, which means they mainly consume leaves. Their digestive system is specially adapted to process large amounts of plant material. They have a large, finely chambered stomach capable of breaking down cellulose, the complex carbohydrate found in plant cell walls.
Howler monkeys are the only folivores of the New World monkeys and eat mainly top canopy leaves, along with fruit, buds, flowers, and nuts. They are slow-moving and omnivores, using their prehensile tails to grip branches and communicate with other animals.
In fact, compared to other monkeys in our area, we’re quite large and slow. We eat fruit, flowers, and nuts, but more than anything we actually like to eat leaves!
Howler monkeys are primarily folivorous, meaning their diet consists mainly of leaves. They consume a wide variety of leaves from different tree species, including tender young leaves, mature leaves, and even leaves with high levels of toxins.
Howlers eat nearly all available plant parts in their habitats. Time dedicated to the consumption of different food types varies among species and populations, such that feeding behavior can range from high folivory to high frugivory.
Howler monkeys, which find their food supply in the mature leaves that dominate year-round in forests such as tropical rainforests, can consume many mature leaves.